Inventor · Cary, NC, US

William E. Jennings

24Patents
12h-index
23Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 30, 1992 → Apr 24, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5490252A System having central processor for transmitting generic packets to another processor to be altered and transmitting altered packets back to central processor for routing Electricity 478 Expired
US5632021A Computer system with cascaded peripheral component interconnect (PCI) buses Physics 250 Expired
US6226771A Method and apparatus for generating error detection data for encapsulated frames Electricity 107 Expired
US6101599A System for context switching between processing elements in a pipeline of processing elements Electricity 101 Expired
US6173386A Parallel processor with debug capability Physics 84 Expired
US6119215A Synchronization and control system for an arrayed processing engine Physics 73 Expired
US6195739A Method and apparatus for passing data among processor complex stages of a pipelined processing engine Physics 66 Expired
US6513108B1 Programmable processing engine for efficiently processing transient data Physics 58 Expired
US6272621A Synchronization and control system for an arrayed processing engine Physics 49 Expired
US6442669B2 Architecture for a process complex of an arrayed pipelined processing engine Physics 46 Expired
US6182267A Ensuring accurate data checksum Physics 29 Expired
US7895412B1 Programmable arrayed processing engine architecture for a network switch Physics 16 Expired
US10509378B2 Systems and methods for soil modeling and automatic irrigation control Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US6836838B1 Architecture for a processor complex of an arrayed pipelined processing engine Physics 7 Expired
US10983489B2 Systems and methods for harmonic analysis of soil Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US10533956B2 Multi-depth soil moisture monitoring systems and methods to evaluate soil type, packaged in small round polyvinyl chloride tube, with potting and rodent protection, for effective measurements and installation Physics 6 Active
US10746720B2 Soil moisture monitoring systems and methods for measuring mutual inductance of area of influence using radio frequency stimulus Physics 5 Active
US11166404B2 Systems and methods for virtual agronomic sensing Physics 4 Active
US7380101B2 Architecture for a processor complex of an arrayed pipelined processing engine Physics 3 Active
US11853021B2 Systems and methods for harmonic analysis of soil by converting frequency of operating signal Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US12216440B2 Systems and methods for harmonic analysis of soil Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US11726075B2 Advanced systems and methods for measuring mutual inductance of area of influence Physics 0 Active
US11464179B2 Systems providing irrigation optimization using sensor networks and soil moisture modeling Physics 0 Active
US11519896B2 Soil moisture monitoring systems and methods for measuring mutual inductance of area of influence using radio frequency stimulus Physics 0 Active

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