Inventor · Los Altos, CA, US

Robert J. Drost

163Patents
18h-index
57Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 5, 1994 → Jun 29, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5767699A Fully complementary differential output driver for high speed digital communications Electricity 171 Expired
US7356213B1 Transparent switch using optical and electrical proximity communication Electricity 159 Active
US6084452A Clock duty cycle control technique Electricity 63 Expired
US5799048A Phase detector for clock synchronization and recovery Electricity 62 Expired
US5955911A On-chip differential resistance technique with noise immunity and symmetric resistance Electricity 45 Expired
US6076175A Controlled phase noise generation method for enhanced testability of clock and data generator and recovery circuits Electricity 37 Expired
US5777567A System and method for serial to parallel data conversion using delay line Electricity 36 Expired
US6055269A Adaptive equalization technique using twice sampled non-return to zero data Electricity 33 Expired
US6016082A Low phase noise LC oscillator for microprocessor clock distribution Electricity 32 Expired
US6329836A Resistive arrayed high speed output driver with pre-distortion Electricity 30 Expired
US6870271B2 Integrated circuit assembly module that supports capacitive communication between semiconductor dies Electricity 25 Expired
US6949406B2 Method and apparatus for optically aligning integrated circuit devices Electricity 25 Expired
US6028903A Delay lock loop with transition recycling for clock recovery of NRZ run-length encoded serial data signals Electricity 23 Expired
US7067910B2 Method and apparatus for using capacitively coupled communication within stacks of laminated chips Electricity 21 Expired
US7817880B1 Multi-chip systems using on-chip photonics Physics 21 Active
US7915699B2 Integrated circuit chip that supports through-chip electromagnetic communication Electricity 20 Active
US7840136B1 Low-latency switch using optical and electrical proximity communication Electricity 19 Active
US5905399A CMOS integrated circuit regulator for reducing power supply noise Physics 19 Expired
US7417993B1 Apparatus and method for high-throughput asynchronous communication Electricity 18 Active
US5898297A Differential high speed driver for low voltage operation Physics 18 Expired
US8767752B1 Method and system for resource coherency and analysis in a network Electricity 18 Active
US6995039B2 Method and apparatus for electrostatically aligning integrated circuits Electricity 18 Expired
US5963606A Phase error cancellation method and apparatus for high performance data recovery Electricity 17 Expired
US8148202B2 Integrated circuit chip with smart pixels that supports through-chip electromagnetic communication Electricity 16 Active
US7525199B1 Packaging for proximity communication positioned integrated circuits Electricity 16 Expired

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