Inventor · Santa Ana, CA, US

Michael J. Wright

46Patents
23h-index
21Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 10, 1979 → Jul 20, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5233539A Programmable gate array with improved interconnect structure, input/output structure and configurable logic block Electricity 185 Expired
US5422823A Programmable gate array device having cascaded means for function definition Electricity 164 Expired
US5231588A Programmable gate array with logic cells having symmetrical input/output structures Electricity 105 Expired
US5586044A Array of configurable logic blocks including cascadable lookup tables Electricity 95 Expired
US4963768A Flexible, programmable cell array interconnected by a programmable switch matrix Electricity 92 Expired
US5587921A Array of configurable logic blocks each including a look up table having inputs coupled to a first multiplexer and having outputs coupled to a second multiplexer Electricity 92 Expired
US5349544A Programmable system synchronizer Electricity 86 Expired
US5212652A Programmable gate array with improved interconnect structure Electricity 86 Expired
US5260881A Programmable gate array with improved configurable logic block Electricity 81 Expired
US5255203A Interconnect structure for programmable logic device Electricity 81 Expired
US5329460A Programmable gate array with improved interconnect structure, input/output structure and configurable logic block Electricity 73 Expired
USD494841S1 Extended electronic door lock backing plate General 72 Expired
US5185706A Programmable gate array with logic cells having configurable output enable Electricity 70 Expired
US5644496A Programmable logic device with internal time-constant multiplexing of signals from external interconnect buses Electricity 57 Expired
US5740069A Logic device (PLD) having direct connections between configurable logic blocks (CLBs) and configurable input/output blocks (IOBs) Electricity 46 Expired
US5359536A Programmable gate array with improved interconnect structure, input/output structure and configurable logic block Electricity 40 Expired
US5621650A Programmable logic device with internal time-constant multiplexing of signals from external interconnect buses Electricity 37 Expired
US7303215B2 Mortise locking device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 34 Expired
US5598346A Array of configurable logic blocks including network means for broadcasting clock signals to different pluralities of logic blocks Electricity 29 Expired
USD501131S1 Lock General 29 Expired
US5153462A Programmable logic device incorporating voltage comparator Electricity 26 Expired
US5264740A Programmable voltage hysteresis on a voltage comparator Electricity 24 Expired
US5490074A Constant delay interconnect for coupling configurable logic blocks Electricity 23 Expired
USD533763S1 Lock General 20 Expired
US8201858B1 Locking system for mortise lock base Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.