Patrick L. Ferguson
21Patents
13h-index
30Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 28, 1994 → Apr 14, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6715116B2 | Memory data verify operation | Physics | 142 | Expired |
| US6363439B1 | System and method for point-to-point serial communication between a system interface device and a bus interface device in a computer system | Physics | 106 | Expired |
| US6832340B2 | Real-time hardware memory scrubbing | Physics | 64 | Expired |
| US10248178B2 | Power consumption limit associated with power over ethernet (POE) computing system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 56 | Active |
| US5506997A | Device for mapping a set of interrupt signals generated on a first type bus to a set of interrupt signals defined by a second type bus and combing the mapped interrupt signals with a set of interrupt signals of the second type bus | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US7320086B2 | Error indication in a raid memory system | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US6981173B2 | Redundant memory sequence and fault isolation | Electricity | 30 | Expired |
| US6785835B2 | Raid memory | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US6263395A | System and method for serial interrupt scanning | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US7028213B2 | Error indication in a raid memory system | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US5590378A | Apparatus for aligning and padding data on transfers between devices of different data widths and organizations | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US6961798B2 | KVM extension configuration including a USB-to-non-USB adapter to support transmission of USB signals from a host to KVM devices located outside of USB operating ranges | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US6993620B2 | User resource sharing through the USB interface | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US6782443B2 | Extension of USB functionality through shadowing of a remote USB host controller | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US5596725A | Fifo queue having replaceable entries | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US7120724B2 | USB interface extension through split transaction protocol | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US5673397A | FIFO queue having replaceable entries | Physics | 2 | Expired |
| US9639135B2 | Power consumption limit associated with power over ethernet (PoE) computing system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 2 | Active |
| US8796880B2 | Variable adapter ID circuit | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8806237B2 | Power switch control circuitry isolating or coupling a system power bus of a computer based on a result state of a logical operation | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US10379589B2 | Power controls | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.