Inventor · Los Altos, CA, US

Richard J. Carter

77Patents
12h-index
93Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 19, 1989 → Aug 9, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9362180B2 Integrated circuit having multiple threshold voltages Electricity 405 Active
US9576952B2 Integrated circuits with varying gate structures and fabrication methods Electricity 403 Active
US8048791B2 Method of forming a semiconductor device Electricity 122 Active
US5091851A Fast multiple-word accesses from a multi-way set-associative cache memory Physics 71 Expired
US5151994A Distributed fair arbitration system using separate grant and request lines for providing access to data communication bus Physics 66 Expired
US9455198B1 Methods of removing fins so as to form isolation structures on products that include FinFET semiconductor devices Electricity 36 Active
US5630088A Virtual to physical address translation Physics 27 Expired
US7902869B1 Extensible three dimensional circuit Electricity 26 Active
US5211792A Method of laminating multiple layers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Expired
US7365015B2 Damascene replacement metal gate process with controlled gate profile and length using Si1-xGex as sacrificial material Electricity 18 Expired
US9455201B2 Integration method for fabrication of metal gate based multiple threshold voltage devices and circuits Electricity 17 Active
US8445344B2 Uniform high-k metal gate stacks by adjusting threshold voltage for sophisticated transistors by diffusing a metal species prior to gate patterning Electricity 15 Active
US7723192B2 Integrated circuit long and short channel metal gate devices and method of manufacture Electricity 12 Active
US7405116B2 Application of gate edge liner to maintain gate length CD in a replacement gate transistor flow Electricity 12 Expired
US7376741B1 System for aborting response to client request if detecting connection between client server is closed by examining local server information Electricity 11 Expired
US7998832B2 Semiconductor device with isolation trench liner, and related fabrication methods Electricity 9 Active
US7822701B2 Lexicon generation methods, lexicon generation devices, and lexicon generation articles of manufacture Physics 9 Active
US9105478B2 Devices and methods of forming fins at tight fin pitches Electricity 8 Active
US8611134B2 Systems and methods for row-wire voltage-loss compensation in crossbar arrays Physics 8 Active
US7082453B1 Long-period counter without carries Electricity 7 Expired
US7402770B2 Nano structure electrode design Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US8095803B1 Protecting the privacy of files referenced by their hash Physics 7 Active
US8652889B2 Fin-transistor formed on a patterned STI region by late fin etch Electricity 7 Active
US8742510B2 Semiconductor devices with replacement gate structures having conductive contacts positioned therebetween Electricity 6 Active
US9219002B2 Overlay performance for a fin field effect transistor device Electricity 6 Active

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