William C. Athas
80Patents
15h-index
52Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 2, 1988 → Apr 24, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6661355B2 | Methods and apparatus for constant-weight encoding & decoding | Electricity | 172 | Expired |
| US4937791A | High performance dynamic ram interface | Physics | 100 | Expired |
| US5559478A | Highly efficient, complementary, resonant pulse generation | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 61 | Expired |
| US8624560B2 | Controlling battery charging based on current, voltage and temperature | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 57 | Active |
| US5047917A | Apparatus for intrasystem communications within a binary n-cube including buffer lock bit | Physics | 56 | Expired |
| US7681013B1 | Method for variable length decoding using multiple configurable look-up tables | Physics | 54 | Expired |
| US5473526A | System and method for power-efficient charging and discharging of a capacitive load from a single source | Electricity | 43 | Expired |
| US7202712B2 | Multiphase resonant pulse generators | Electricity | 41 | Active |
| US7171570B2 | Method and apparatus for selectively increasing the operating speed of an electronic circuit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 38 | Expired |
| US8134336B2 | Method and system for charging a series battery | Electricity | 38 | Active |
| USRE37552E1 | System and method for power-efficient charging and discharging of a capacitive load from a single source | General | 25 | Expired |
| US8143851B2 | Power source having a parallel cell topology | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 21 | Active |
| US7430676B2 | Method and apparatus for changing the clock frequency of a memory system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 15 | Active |
| US6844833B2 | Methods and apparatus for constant-weight encoding and decoding | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US8754611B2 | Diffusion-limited adaptive battery charging | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 15 | Active |
| US8244296B2 | Dynamic thermal control for wireless transceivers | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 15 | Active |
| US7340622B2 | Method and apparatus for selectively increasing the operating speed of an electronic circuit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Active |
| US6848032B2 | Pipelining cache-coherence operations in a shared-memory multiprocessing system | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| USRE38918E1 | System and method for power-efficient charging and discharging of a capacitive load from a single source | General | 11 | Expired |
| US7005893B1 | High-performance clock-powered logic | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US6813719B2 | Method and apparatus for increasing the operating frequency of an electronic circuit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 11 | Expired |
| US8170606B2 | Dynamic thermal control for wireless transceivers | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 11 | Active |
| US7872539B1 | Energy efficient waveform generation using tuned resonators | Electricity | 9 | Active |
| US10697830B1 | Multicomb light source and spectrometer | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US8933665B2 | Balancing voltages between battery banks | Electricity | 8 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.