Inventor · Pleasant Valley, NY, US

William E. Dougherty, Jr.

13Patents
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24Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 28, 1976 → Dec 4, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4202007A Multi-layer dielectric planar structure having an internal conductor pattern characterized with opposite terminations disposed at a common edge surface of the layers Electricity 71 Expired
US4602271A Personalizable masterslice substrate for semiconductor chips Electricity 53 Expired
US4259367A Fine line repair technique Electricity 51 Expired
US4439813A Thin film discrete decoupling capacitor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Expired
US4193082A Multi-layer dielectric structure Electricity 14 Expired
US4598470A Method for providing improved electrical and mechanical connection between I/O pin and transverse via substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Expired
US4369154A Process for producing smoother ceramic surfaces Electricity 11 Expired
US4053942A Device for removing low level contaminants from a liquid Electricity 8 Expired
US7810062B2 Method for eliminating negative slack in a netlist via transformation and slack categorization Physics 5 Active
US7373615B2 Method for optimization of logic circuits for routability Physics 4 Expired
US9875326B2 Addressing coupled noise-based violations with buffering in a batch environment Physics 3 Active
US8302049B2 Method for enabling multiple incompatible or costly timing environment for efficient timing closure Physics 3 Active
US4255904A Universal positioning support for grinder wheels Performing Operations; Transporting 0 Expired

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