Inventor · Boise, ID, US

Stephen R. Porter

44Patents
13h-index
17Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 26, 1992 → Aug 4, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5274276A Output driver circuit comprising a programmable circuit for determining the potential at the output node and the method of implementing the circuit Electricity 151 Expired
US5369317A Circuit and method for controlling the potential of a digit line and in limiting said potential to a maximum value Electricity 58 Expired
US5903502A Variable equilibrate voltage circuit for paired digit lines Physics 45 Expired
US5297087A Methods and devices for accelerating failure of marginally defective dielectric layers Physics 44 Expired
US5304506A On chip decoupling capacitor Electricity 44 Expired
US6351425B1 Method and circuit for high voltage programming of antifuses, and memory device and computer system using same Physics 35 Expired
US6114878A Circuit for contact pad isolation Electricity 27 Expired
US6396300B1 Circuit and method for contact pad isolation Electricity 26 Expired
US6141272A Method and apparatus for programmable control signal generation for a semiconductor device Physics 16 Expired
US6297998A Method and apparatus for programmable control signal generation for a semiconductor device Physics 15 Expired
US6219293A Method and apparatus for supplying regulated power to memory device components Physics 15 Expired
US6355508B1 Method for forming electrostatic discharge protection device having a graded junction Electricity 14 Expired
US6834019B2 Isolation device over field in a memory device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US6515925B2 Balanced sense amplifier control for open digit line architecture memory devices Physics 12 Expired
US7245548B2 Techniques for reducing leakage current in memory devices Physics 12 Expired
US7033867B2 Shallow trench antifuse and methods of making and using same Electricity 10 Expired
US7020039B2 Isolation device over field in a memory device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US6723618B2 Methods of forming field isolation structures Electricity 10 Expired
US6365937B1 Electrostatic discharge protection device having a graded junction Electricity 9 Expired
US6275409A Methods of operating a dynamic random access memory Physics 8 Expired
US6740957B2 Shallow trench antifuse and methods of making and using same Electricity 8 Expired
US7142446B2 Apparatus and method to reduce undesirable effects caused by a fault in a memory device Physics 8 Expired
US6385098B2 Method and apparatus for supplying regulated power to memory device components Physics 8 Expired
US5901078A Variable voltage isolation gate and method Physics 8 Expired
US6445610B1 Variable voltage isolation gate and method Physics 7 Expired

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