Steven Wells
74Patents
31h-index
64Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 17, 1988 → Apr 18, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5341339A | Method for wear leveling in a flash EEPROM memory | Physics | 346 | Expired |
| US5053990A | Program/erase selection for flash memory | Physics | 289 | Expired |
| US5357475A | Method for detaching sectors in a flash EEPROM memory array | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 179 | Expired |
| US5822256A | Method and circuitry for usage of partially functional nonvolatile memory | Physics | 165 | Expired |
| US5341330A | Method for writing to a flash memory array during erase suspend intervals | Physics | 164 | Expired |
| US5822781A | Sector-based storage device emulator having variable-sized sector | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 158 | Expired |
| US5581723A | Method and apparatus for retaining flash block structure data during erase operations in a flash EEPROM memory array | Physics | 156 | Expired |
| US5222046A | Processor controlled command port architecture for flash memory | Physics | 150 | Expired |
| US5450363A | Gray coding for a multilevel cell memory system | Physics | 150 | Expired |
| US5475693A | Error management processes for flash EEPROM memory arrays | Physics | 149 | Expired |
| US5740395A | Method and apparatus for cleaning up a solid state memory disk storing floating sector data | Physics | 130 | Expired |
| US5473753A | Method of managing defects in flash disk memories | Physics | 127 | Expired |
| US5535369A | Method for allocating memory in a solid state memory disk | Physics | 115 | Expired |
| US5586285A | Method and circuitry for increasing reserve memory in a solid state memory disk | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 111 | Expired |
| US5416782A | Method and apparatus for improving data failure rate testing for memory arrays | Physics | 107 | Expired |
| US5479633A | Method of controlling clean-up of a solid state memory disk storing floating sector data | Physics | 106 | Expired |
| US5437020A | Method and circuitry for detecting lost sectors of data in a solid state memory disk | Physics | 102 | Expired |
| US5515317A | Addressing modes for a dynamic single bit per cell to multiple bit per cell memory | Physics | 97 | Expired |
| US6009497A | Method and apparatus for updating flash memory resident firmware through a standard disk drive interface | Physics | 92 | Expired |
| US5577194A | Method of managing defects in flash disk memories | Physics | 90 | Expired |
| US5740349A | Method and apparatus for reliably storing defect information in flash disk memories | Physics | 84 | Expired |
| US6014755A | Method of managing defects in flash disk memories | Physics | 83 | Expired |
| US5448577A | Method for reliably storing non-data fields in a flash EEPROM memory array | Electricity | 68 | Expired |
| US5574879A | Addressing modes for a dynamic single bit per cell to multiple bit per cell memory | Physics | 61 | Expired |
| US5754817A | Execution in place of a file stored non-contiguously in a non-volatile memory | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 60 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.