Inventor · Chapel Hill, NC, US

Robert E. Palmer

54Patents
11h-index
21Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 23, 1979 → Mar 20, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6556628B1 Methods and systems for transmitting and receiving differential signals over a plurality of conductors Electricity 213 Expired
US5933607A Digital communication system for simultaneous transmission of data from constant and variable rate sources Electricity 124 Expired
US7319345B2 Wide-range multi-phase clock generator Electricity 51 Expired
US8432768B2 Mesochronous signaling system with multiple power modes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 51 Active
US7639737B2 Adaptive equalization using correlation of edge samples with data patterns Electricity 28 Active
US9318183B2 Maintenance operations in a DRAM Physics 21 Active
US8918669B2 Mesochronous signaling system with clock-stopped low power mode Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Active
US9933960B2 Maintenance operations in a DRAM Physics 12 Active
US8737162B2 Clock-forwarding low-power signaling system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US9043633B2 Memory controller with transaction-queue-monitoring power mode circuitry Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US7271623B2 Low-power receiver equalization in a clocked sense amplifier Electricity 11 Expired
US8918667B2 Mesochronous signaling system with core-clock synchronization Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US9229523B2 Memory controller with transaction-queue-dependent power modes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Active
US9437276B2 Maintenance operations in a DRAM Physics 10 Active
US8243783B2 Adaptive equalization using correlation of edge samples with data patterns Electricity 9 Active
US9368172B2 Read strobe gating mechanism Physics 9 Active
US8949520B2 Maintenance operations in a DRAM Physics 9 Active
US9892771B2 Memory controller with dynamic core-transfer latency Physics 9 Active
US10331193B2 Signaling interface with phase and framing calibration Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Active
US8689159B1 Redundancy for on-chip interconnect Physics 6 Active
US11556164B2 Memory IC with data loopback Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US8310294B2 Low-power clock generation and distribution circuitry Electricity 4 Active
US7664166B2 Pleisiochronous repeater system and components thereof Electricity 4 Active
US10212008B2 Adaptive equalization using correlation of data patterns with errors Electricity 3 Active
US8665940B2 Adaptive equalization using correlation of edge samples with data patterns Electricity 3 Active

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