William A. Oswald
15Patents
10h-index
26Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 4, 1981 → Jul 31, 2014
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5570039A | Programmable function unit as parallel multiplier cell | Electricity | 86 | Expired |
| US5255264A | Distributed control switching network for multi-line telephone communications | Electricity | 71 | Expired |
| US5396126A | FPGA with distributed switch matrix | Electricity | 66 | Expired |
| US6496969B2 | Programming programmable logic devices using hidden switches | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US5311080A | Field programmable gate array with direct input/output connection | Electricity | 39 | Expired |
| US4521879A | Digital private branch exchange | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US5237571A | Broadcast system for distributed switching network | Electricity | 29 | Expired |
| US5384497A | Low-skew signal routing in a programmable array | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US5379280A | Conferencing system for distributed switching network | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US7870480B1 | Methods and apparatus for storing and retrieving annotations accessible by a plurality of reports | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US7523317B2 | Computer grid access management system | Electricity | 9 | Active |
| US5528170A | Low-skew signal routing in a programmable array | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US7937589B2 | Computer grid access management system | Electricity | 2 | Active |
| US10412594B2 | Network planning tool support for 3D data | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US6748575B1 | Programming programmable logic devices using hidden switches | Physics | 0 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.