Inventor · Tarrytown, NY, US

Thomas Happ

137Patents
20h-index
62Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 28, 2003 → Sep 22, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7166533B2 Phase change memory cell defined by a pattern shrink material process Electricity 200 Expired
US7214958B2 Phase change memory cell with high read margin at low power operation Physics 199 Expired
US7426134B2 Sense circuit for resistive memory Physics 102 Active
US7405418B2 Memory device electrode with a surface structure Physics 80 Expired
US7515461B2 Current compliant sensing architecture for multilevel phase change memory Physics 77 Active
US7460394B2 Phase change memory having temperature budget sensor Physics 44 Expired
US7215564B2 Semiconductor memory component in cross-point architecture Physics 41 Expired
US7417245B2 Phase change memory having multilayer thermal insulation Physics 40 Expired
US7023008B1 Resistive memory element Electricity 37 Expired
US7324365B2 Phase change memory fabricated using self-aligned processing Electricity 33 Expired
US7405964B2 Integrated circuit to identify read disturb condition in memory cell Physics 32 Active
US7796424B2 Memory device having drift compensated read operation and associated method Physics 31 Active
US7372725B2 Integrated circuit having resistive memory Physics 29 Expired
US7619917B2 Memory cell with trigger element Physics 28 Active
US7453081B2 Phase change memory cell including nanocomposite insulator Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Active
US7623401B2 Semiconductor device including multi-bit memory cells and a temperature budget sensor Physics 25 Active
US7113424B2 Energy adjusted write pulses in phase-change memories Physics 22 Expired
US7545668B2 Mushroom phase change memory having a multilayer electrode Electricity 21 Active
US8138028B2 Method for manufacturing a phase change memory device with pillar bottom electrode Electricity 21 Active
US7495946B2 Phase change memory fabricated using self-aligned processing Electricity 20 Expired
US7539050B2 Resistive memory including refresh operation Physics 20 Active
US6972427B2 Switching device for reconfigurable interconnect and method for making the same Electricity 19 Expired
US7593255B2 Integrated circuit for programming a memory element Physics 17 Active
US7838860B2 Integrated circuit including vertical diode Electricity 17 Active
US7929336B2 Integrated circuit including a memory element programmed using a seed pulse Physics 17 Active

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