Inventor · Dallas, TX, US

Robert Steinhoff

20Patents
8h-index
10Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 7, 2000 → Oct 14, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6424013B1 Body-triggered ESD protection circuit Electricity 29 Expired
US6919603B2 Efficient protection structure for reverse pin-to-pin electrostatic discharge Electricity 20 Expired
US8890248B2 Bi-directional ESD protection circuit Electricity 20 Active
US7427787B2 Guardringed SCR ESD protection Electricity 20 Active
US7566595B2 Method of making and using guardringed SCR ESD protection cell Electricity 11 Active
US6624481B1 ESD robust bipolar transistor with high variable trigger and sustaining voltages Electricity 10 Expired
US6940131B2 MOS ESD CDM clamp with integral substrate injection guardring and method for fabrication Electricity 9 Expired
US6784496B1 Circuit and method for an integrated charged device model clamp Electricity 8 Expired
US7245466B2 Pumped SCR for ESD protection Electricity 5 Expired
US6933741B2 Electrostatic discharge testers for undistorted human-body-model and machine-model characteristics Physics 5 Expired
US6577481B2 Cascoded NPN electrostatic discharge protection circuit Electricity 5 Expired
US8110462B2 Reduced finger end MOSFET breakdown voltage (BV) for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection Electricity 4 Active
US7639463B2 Apparatus and method for reducing leakage between an input terminal and power rail Electricity 4 Active
US9019670B2 Bi-directional ESD protection circuit Electricity 2 Active
US7034364B2 Reduced finger end MOSFET breakdown voltage (BV) for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection Electricity 2 Expired
US6949800B2 Versatile system for electrostatic discharge protection utilizing silicon controlled rectifier Electricity 1 Expired
US7060538B2 Versatile system for electrostatic discharge protection utilizing silicon controlled rectifier Electricity 1 Expired
US8384127B1 Bi-directional ESD protection circuit Electricity 0 Expired
US8916934B2 Bi-directional electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit Electricity 0 Active
US9812439B2 Bi-directional ESD protection circuit Electricity 0 Active

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