Inventor · Irmo, SC, US

Richard Mellitz

20Patents
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13Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 20, 1989 → Jul 25, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5825630A Electronic circuit board including a second circuit board attached there to to provide an area of increased circuit density Electricity 48 Expired
US5017863A Electro-emissive laser stimulated test Physics 47 Expired
US5596283A Continuous motion electrical circuit interconnect test method and apparatus Physics 35 Expired
US5256975A Manually-operated continuity/shorts test probe for bare interconnection packages Physics 20 Expired
US5990721A High-speed synchronous clock generated by standing wave Physics 20 Expired
US8370704B2 Cable interconnection techniques Electricity 13 Active
US5498965A Driving point reference plane time domain reflectometry method for measuring characteristic impedance Physics 13 Expired
US8307265B2 Interconnection techniques Electricity 12 Active
US7459985B2 Connector having a cut-out for reduced crosstalk between differential conductors Electricity 8 Expired
US6078965A Transmission line system for printed circuits Electricity 3 Expired
US7076401B2 Method and apparatus for measuring data timing using unity time-voltage sawtooth ramps Physics 2 Expired
US9846189B2 Techniques for characterizing a transmission line Physics 2 Active
US9197288B2 Determining the signal quality of an electrical interconnect Electricity 2 Active
US6421391B1 Transmission line for high-frequency clock Electricity 1 Expired
US10164912B2 Ethernet auto-negotiation with parallel detect for 10G DAC or other non-auto-negotiated modes Electricity 1 Active
US8661313B2 Device communication techniques Electricity 1 Active
US6624690B2 Method and apparatus to delay circuit trigger Electricity 0 Expired
US9906267B2 Determining the signal quality of an electrical interconnect Electricity 0 Active
US8018992B2 Performing adaptive external equalization Electricity 0 Active
US8645804B2 Interconnection techniques Electricity 0 Active

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