Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Tyler Thorp

69Patents
11h-index
19Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 14, 2000 → May 29, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7023260B2 Charge pump circuit incorporating corresponding parallel charge pump stages and method therefor Electricity 111 Expired
US7656734B2 Methods and apparatus for extending the effective thermal operating range of a memory Physics 75 Active
US7764534B2 Two terminal nonvolatile memory using gate controlled diode elements Electricity 26 Active
US6686785B2 Deskewing global clock skew using localized DLLs Electricity 25 Expired
US7391638B2 Memory device for protecting memory cells during programming Physics 23 Active
US6476663B1 Method for reducing supply noise near an on-die thermal sensor Electricity 18 Expired
US6549038B1 Method of high-performance CMOS design Electricity 18 Expired
US7558129B2 Device with load-based voltage generation Physics 13 Active
US7696805B2 Level shifter circuit incorporating transistor snap-back protection Electricity 12 Active
US7542338B2 Method for reading a multi-level passive element memory cell array Physics 11 Active
US7236023B2 Apparatus and methods for adaptive trip point detection Electricity 11 Expired
US6662126B2 Measuring skew using on-chip sampling Physics 11 Expired
US7999529B2 Methods and apparatus for generating voltage references using transistor threshold differences Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Active
US7870472B2 Methods and apparatus for employing redundant arrays to configure non-volatile memory Physics 8 Active
US7542337B2 Apparatus for reading a multi-level passive element memory cell array Physics 6 Active
US6566758B1 Current crowding reduction technique for flip chip package technology Electricity 6 Expired
US6721936B2 Shield assignment using preferential shields Electricity 6 Expired
US6501328B1 Method for reducing peak to peak jitter in a dual-loop delay locked loop Electricity 6 Expired
US8040721B2 Creating short program pulses in asymmetric memory arrays Physics 6 Active
US6483341B2 CMOS-microprocessor chip and package anti-resonance apparatus Electricity 6 Expired
US6473883B1 Integrated circuit performance and reliability using angle measurement for a patterned bump layout on a power grid Physics 6 Expired
US6604226B2 Verifying on-chip decoupling capacitance using transistor and capacitor surface area information Physics 5 Expired
US7515488B2 Method for load-based voltage generation Physics 5 Active
US6871290B2 Method for reducing a magnitude of a rate of current change of an integrated circuit Electricity 4 Expired
US7773446B2 Methods and apparatus for extending the effective thermal operating range of a memory Physics 4 Active

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