Inventor · Tokyo, JP

Osamu Minato

41Patents
21h-index
85Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 13, 1976 → Jun 6, 1995

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4455495A Programmable semiconductor integrated circuitry including a programming semiconductor element Electricity 111 Expired
US4086642A Protective circuit and device for metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor and method for fabricating the device Electricity 109 Expired
US4701884A Semiconductor memory for serial data access Electricity 102 Expired
US4609407A Method of making three dimensional semiconductor devices in selectively laser regrown polysilicon or amorphous silicon layers Electricity 66 Expired
US4992677A High speed MOSFET output buffer with low noise Electricity 61 Expired
US4653025A Random access memory with high density and low power Physics 52 Expired
US5194749A Semiconductor integrated circuit device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 51 Expired
US4539660A Semiconductor integrated circuit Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 46 Expired
US4507759A Static memory Electricity 43 Expired
US4853894A Static random-access memory having multilevel conductive layer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Expired
US5483083A Semiconductor integrated circuit device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 42 Expired
US4805147A Stacked static random access memory cell having capacitor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 41 Expired
US5132771A Semiconductor memory device having flip-flop circuits Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 40 Expired
US4672586A Semiconductor memory having circuit effecting refresh on variable cycles Physics 35 Expired
US4280065A Tri-state type driver circuit Electricity 33 Expired
US4849801A Semiconductor memory device having increased capacitance for the storing nodes of the memory cells Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Expired
US4492974A DMOS With gate protection diode formed over base region Electricity 29 Expired
US4747082A Semiconductor memory with automatic refresh means Physics 26 Expired
US5172335A Semiconductor memory with divided bit load and data bus lines Physics 22 Expired
US4616243A Gate protection for a MOSFET Electricity 22 Expired
US4785342A Static random access memory having structure of first-, second- and third-level conductive films Electricity 22 Expired
US4641285A Line change-over circuit and semiconductor memory using the same Physics 20 Expired
US4937790A Semiconductor memory device Physics 19 Expired
US4609835A Semiconductor integrated circuit Electricity 18 Expired
US4377819A Semiconductor device Electricity 18 Expired

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