Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Patrick J. Crotty

42Patents
10h-index
42Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 27, 1997 → Dec 27, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7919845B2 Formation of a hybrid integrated circuit device Electricity 183 Active
US6667635B1 FPGA lookup table with transmission gate structure for reliable low-voltage operation Electricity 137 Expired
US7254157B1 Method and apparatus for generating a phase locked spread spectrum clock signal Electricity 67 Expired
US7498835B1 Implementation of low power standby modes for integrated circuits Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Expired
US6664807B1 Repeater for buffering a signal on a long data line of a programmable logic device Electricity 29 Expired
US6078201A Power-on reset circuit for dual supply voltages Electricity 21 Expired
US6847228B1 Carry logic design having simplified timing modeling for a field programmable gate array Electricity 14 Expired
US7088172B1 Configurable voltage bias circuit for controlling buffer delays Physics 14 Expired
US8667192B2 Integrated circuit with programmable circuitry and an embedded processor system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Active
US6160431A Power-on reset circuit for dual supply voltages Electricity 12 Expired
US6847246B1 Method and apparatus for reducing jitter and power dissipation in a delay line Electricity 10 Expired
US7372679B1 Method and apparatus for RC triggered electrostatic discharge power clamp with hysteresis Electricity 9 Expired
US6972939B1 Method and apparatus for a floating well RC triggered electrostatic discharge power clamp Electricity 9 Expired
US8354671B1 Integrated circuit with adaptive VGG setting Electricity 6 Active
US7853811B1 Suspend mode operation for reduced power Physics 6 Active
US5898320A Programmable interconnect point having reduced crowbar current Electricity 5 Expired
US6970012B2 Programmable logic device having heterogeneous programmable logic blocks Electricity 5 Expired
US8503264B1 Reducing power consumption in a segmented memory Physics 4 Active
US6809552B1 FPGA lookup table with transmission gate structure for reliable low-voltage operation Electricity 4 Expired
US9887699B2 Programmable logic device with integrated high voltage power FET Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US8293547B2 Hybrid integrated circuit device Electricity 3 Active
US9454498B1 Integrated circuit with programmable circuitry and an embedded processor system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US8261101B1 Self power down integrated circuit Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US8040153B1 Method and apparatus for configuring the internal memory cells of an integrated circuit Electricity 2 Active
US9998135B2 Method and apparatus for analog to digital error conversion with multiple symmetric transfer functions Electricity 1 Active

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