Robert A. Groves
60Patents
16h-index
86Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Nov 6, 1998 → Jun 7, 2019
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6635506B2 | Method of fabricating micro-electromechanical switches on CMOS compatible substrates | Performing Operations; Transporting | 83 | Expired |
| US6701779B2 | Perpendicular torsion micro-electromechanical switch | Electricity | 63 | Expired |
| US6639488B2 | MEMS RF switch with low actuation voltage | Electricity | 52 | Expired |
| US6549096B2 | Switched inductor/varactor tuning circuit having a variable integrated inductor | Electricity | 51 | Expired |
| US6650000B2 | Apparatus and method for forming a battery in an integrated circuit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 32 | Expired |
| US6661069B1 | Micro-electromechanical varactor with enhanced tuning range | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Expired |
| US7045372B2 | Apparatus and method for forming a battery in an integrated circuit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Expired |
| US6492708B2 | Integrated coil inductors for IC devices | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US7563714B2 | Low resistance and inductance backside through vias and methods of fabricating same | Electricity | 24 | Active |
| US6833603B1 | Dynamically patterned shielded high-Q inductor | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US6762088B2 | High Q inductor with faraday shield and dielectric well buried in substrate | Electricity | 20 | Expired |
| US6414371B1 | Process and structure for 50+ gigahertz transistor | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US6534843B2 | High Q inductor with faraday shield and dielectric well buried in substrate | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US6714113B1 | Inductor for integrated circuits | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US6798029B2 | Method of fabricating micro-electromechanical switches on CMOS compatible substrates | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US6720230B2 | Method of fabricating integrated coil inductors for IC devices | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US8704576B1 | Variable resistance switch for wide bandwidth resonant global clock distribution | Physics | 16 | Active |
| US6489663B2 | Spiral inductor semiconducting device with grounding strips and conducting vias | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US7005371B2 | Method of forming suspended transmission line structures in back end of line processing | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US7463112B1 | Area efficient, differential T-coil impedance-matching circuit for high speed communications applications | Electricity | 14 | Active |
| US9548158B2 | 3D multipath inductor | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Active |
| US6876282B2 | Micro-electro-mechanical RF switch | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US6489857B2 | Multiposition micro electromechanical switch | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US7608909B2 | Suspended transmission line structures in back end of line processing | Electricity | 10 | Active |
| US7851923B2 | Low resistance and inductance backside through vias and methods of fabricating same | Electricity | 10 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.