Inventor · South Burlington, VT, US

William R. Tonti

293Patents
44h-index
189Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 30, 1991 → Sep 20, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6544837B1 SOI stacked DRAM logic Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 391 Expired
US7790543B2 Device structures for a metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor and methods of fabricating such device structures Electricity 267 Active
US6720213B1 Low-K gate spacers by fluorine implantation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 250 Expired
US7790524B2 Device and design structures for memory cells in a non-volatile random access memory and methods of fabricating such device structures Electricity 244 Active
US6271059A Chip interconnection structure using stub terminals Electricity 237 Expired
US6429477B1 Shared body and diffusion contact structure and method for fabricating same Electricity 169 Expired
US6358627B2 Rolling ball connector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 149 Expired
US6590258B2 SIO stacked DRAM logic Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 141 Expired
US6492211B1 Method for novel SOI DRAM BICMOS NPN Electricity 135 Expired
US7352034B2 Semiconductor structures integrating damascene-body FinFET's and planar devices on a common substrate and methods for forming such semiconductor structures Electricity 129 Expired
US7818702B2 Structure incorporating latch-up resistant semiconductor device structures on hybrid substrates Electricity 116 Active
US5334880A Low voltage programmable storage element Physics 98 Expired
US6255899A Method and apparatus for increasing interchip communications rates Electricity 98 Expired
US6410431B1 Through-chip conductors for low inductance chip-to-chip integration and off-chip connections Electricity 98 Expired
US6141245A Impedance control using fuses Electricity 86 Expired
US6345362B1 Managing Vt for reduced power using a status table Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 82 Expired
US6114221A Method and apparatus for interconnecting multiple circuit chips Electricity 81 Expired
US7163851B2 Concurrent Fin-FET and thick-body device fabrication Electricity 74 Expired
US6399990B1 Isolated well ESD device Electricity 71 Expired
US7763531B2 Method and structure to process thick and thin fins and variable fin to fin spacing Physics 66 Active
US5894152A SOI/bulk hybrid substrate and method of forming the same Electricity 65 Expired
US6577156B2 Method and apparatus for initializing an integrated circuit using compressed data from a remote fusebox Physics 64 Expired
US6876035B2 High voltage N-LDMOS transistors having shallow trench isolation region Electricity 63 Expired
US6555891B1 SOI hybrid structure with selective epitaxial growth of silicon Electricity 62 Expired
US6346846B1 Methods and apparatus for blowing and sensing antifuses Physics 60 Expired

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