Thomas R. Toms
24Patents
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39Co-inventors
75Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 4, 1991 → Oct 17, 2013
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5263168A | Circuitry for automatically entering and terminating an initialization mode in a data processing system in response to a control signal | Physics | 79 | Expired |
| US5339279A | Block erasable flash EEPROM apparatus and method thereof | Physics | 51 | Expired |
| US6133759A | Decoupled reset dynamic logic circuit | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US5168466A | Bias current generator circuit for a sense amplifier | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US6076177A | Method and apparatus for testing a circuit module concurrently with a non-volatile memory operation in a multi-module data processing system | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US8143952B2 | Three dimensional inductor and transformer | Electricity | 10 | Active |
| US6240493A | Method and apparatus for performing access censorship in a data processing system | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US7902654B2 | System and method of silicon switched power delivery using a package | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US6499092B1 | Method and apparatus for performing access censorship in a data processing system | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US7812582B2 | System and method of power distribution control of an integrated circuit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 8 | Active |
| US8067816B2 | Techniques for placement of active and passive devices within a chip | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US8598700B2 | Active thermal control for stacked IC devices | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US8350358B2 | Techniques for placement of active and passive devices within a chip | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US7904770B2 | Testing circuit split between tiers of through silicon stacking chips | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US5631853A | Flexible configuration of timebases in a timer system | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US8324066B2 | Techniques for placement of active and passive devices within a chip | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US8508301B2 | Three dimensional inductor, transformer and radio frequency amplifier | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US8987062B2 | Active thermal control for stacked IC devices | Electricity | 2 | Active |
| US8796073B2 | Low cost die-to-wafer alignment/bond for 3d IC stacking | Electricity | 2 | Active |
| US8184414B2 | Method and apparatus for forming I/O clusters in integrated circuits | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 0 | Active |
| US6008677A | Voltage recovery circuit and method therefor | Physics | 0 | Expired |
| US9014749B2 | System and method to initiate a housekeeping operation at a mobile device | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US8471582B2 | Circuit for detecting tier-to-tier couplings in stacked integrated circuit devices | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US8193630B2 | System and method of silicon switched power delivery using a package | Electricity | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.