Thomas E. Willis
41Patents
9h-index
37Co-inventors
75Inventor score
Filing activity: Nov 9, 1993 → Oct 29, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5600781A | Method and apparatus for creating a portable personalized operating environment | Physics | 144 | Expired |
| US7194597B2 | Method and apparatus for sharing TLB entries | Physics | 75 | Expired |
| US7317464B2 | Pulse width modulated spatial light modulators with offset pulses | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US6728858B2 | Method and apparatus including heuristic for sharing TLB entries | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US7038671B2 | Digitally driving pixels from pulse width modulated waveforms | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US7165164B2 | Method and apparatus including heuristic for sharing TLB entries | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US6888551B2 | Sparse refresh of display | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 11 | Expired |
| US10048977B2 | Methods and apparatus for multi-stage VM virtual network function and virtual service function chain acceleration for NFV and needs-based hardware acceleration | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US7019884B2 | Light modulator with bi-directional drive | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US6995771B2 | Sparse refresh of display | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US7113195B2 | Generating pulse width modulated waveforms to digitally drive pixels | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US7151521B2 | Methods and apparatus for driving pixels in a microdisplay | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US7038689B2 | Sparse refresh double-buffering | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US7671865B2 | Refresh of display | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Active |
| US7073044B2 | Method and apparatus for sharing TLB entries | Physics | 3 | Expired |
| US7362316B2 | Light modulator having pixel memory decoupled from pixel display | Physics | 3 | Expired |
| US7698607B2 | Repairing microdisplay frame buffers | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US7348987B2 | Sparse refresh of display | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US7145581B2 | Selectively updating pulse width modulated waveforms while driving pixels | Physics | 2 | Expired |
| US7956857B2 | Light modulator having pixel memory decoupled from pixel display | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US7995068B2 | Display refresh | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 2 | Active |
| US7126592B2 | Forming modulated signals that digitally drive display elements | Physics | 2 | Expired |
| US5512114A | One-piece single metal spinneret and method for making it | Textiles; Paper | 2 | Expired |
| US12192023B2 | Page-based remote memory access using system memory interface network device | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US7136211B2 | Display device with non-linear ramp | Physics | 1 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.