Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Robert L. Payne

22Patents
14h-index
21Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 6, 1975 → May 26, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5446445A Mobile detection system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 393 Expired
US6057598A Face on face flip chip integration Electricity 177 Expired
US6347395B1 Method and arrangement for rapid silicon prototyping Physics 93 Expired
US5854510A Low power programmable fuse structures Electricity 75 Expired
US5882998A Low power programmable fuse structures and methods for making the same Electricity 59 Expired
US4310990A Hydroponics Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 51 Expired
US4013902A Initial reset signal generator and low voltage detector Electricity 37 Expired
US5976943A Method for bi-layer programmable resistor Electricity 35 Expired
US4110641A CMOS voltage comparator with internal hysteresis Electricity 34 Expired
US7187741B2 Clock domain crossing FIFO Electricity 23 Expired
US7586401B2 System and method for vehicle theft-prevention Performing Operations; Transporting 21 Expired
US5959905A Cell-based integrated circuit design repair using gate array repair cells Electricity 18 Expired
US5936880A Bi-layer programmable resistor memory Physics 18 Expired
US4282519A Interconnection of alarms of smoke detectors with distinguishable alarms Physics 16 Expired
US6037669A Staggered pad array Electricity 13 Expired
US5923608A Scalable N-port memory structures Physics 12 Expired
US6338158B1 Custom IC hardware modeling using standard ICs for use in IC design validation Physics 9 Expired
US8517077B2 Automatic taper Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Active
US8381789B2 Securing device for an automatic taper Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US4321561A Switch operated capacitive oscillator apparatus Electricity 7 Expired
US6665855B2 Method and arrangement for rapid silicon prototyping Physics 4 Expired
US6996106B2 High-speed interchip interface protocol Physics 0 Expired

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