Timothy B. Cowles
142Patents
21h-index
55Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 24, 1994 → Feb 7, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5508638A | Low current redundancy fuse assembly | Electricity | 118 | Expired |
| US5729504A | Continuous burst edo memory device | Physics | 105 | Expired |
| US5946265A | Continuous burst EDO memory device | Physics | 98 | Expired |
| US5959929A | Method for writing to multiple banks of a memory device | Physics | 96 | Expired |
| US6128237A | Method and apparatus for enhancing the performance of semiconductor memory devices | Physics | 84 | Expired |
| US6556497B2 | Refresh controller and address remapping circuit and method for dual mode full/reduced density DRAMs | Physics | 48 | Expired |
| US5424672A | Low current redundancy fuse assembly | Electricity | 46 | Expired |
| US5999481A | Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an integrated circuit responsive to out-of-synchronism control signals | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| US10297307B1 | Methods for independent memory bank maintenance and memory devices and systems employing the same | Physics | 38 | Active |
| US5940315A | Strapped wordline architecture for semiconductor memory | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US6026042A | Method and apparatus for enhancing the performance of semiconductor memory devices | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US6552596B2 | Current saving mode for input buffers | Electricity | 32 | Expired |
| US6049502A | Method for writing to multiple banks of a memory device | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US11069393B2 | Apparatuses and methods for controlling steal rates | Physics | 28 | Active |
| US6104651A | Testing parameters of an electronic device | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US6144593A | Circuit and method for a multiplexed redundancy scheme in a memory device | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US6269035A | Circuit and method for a multiplexed redundancy scheme in a memory device | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US6904552B2 | Circuit and method for test and repair | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US6212114A | Methods of identifying defects in an array of memory cells and related integrated circuitry | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US6535439B2 | Full stress open digit line memory device | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US11158364B2 | Apparatuses and methods for tracking victim rows | Physics | 21 | Active |
| US6278648A | Method for writing to multiple banks of a memory device | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US6650584B2 | Full stress open digit line memory device | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US5945840A | Low current redundancy anti-fuse assembly | Electricity | 20 | Expired |
| US6864725B2 | Low current wide VREF range input buffer | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.