Inventor · Los Altos, CA, US

William S. Coates

20Patents
7h-index
15Co-inventors
62Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 5, 1997 → Dec 30, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6600325B2 Method and apparatus for probing an integrated circuit through capacitive coupling Physics 46 Expired
US6694389B2 Method and apparatus for data flow analysis Electricity 15 Expired
US8130821B2 Equalization in capacitively coupled communication links Electricity 14 Active
US5943491A Control circuit of mutual exclusion elements Physics 13 Expired
US7256628B2 Speed-matching control method and circuit Physics 9 Expired
US7701254B2 Reconfigurable circuits Electricity 8 Active
US6169422A Apparatus and methods for high throughput self-timed domino circuits Electricity 8 Expired
US6085316A Layered counterflow pipeline processor with anticipatory control Physics 6 Expired
US6360288B1 Method and modules for control of pipelines carrying data using pipelines carrying control signals Physics 4 Expired
US7994501B2 Method and apparatus for electronically aligning capacitively coupled mini-bars Electricity 4 Active
US7369726B2 Optical communication between face-to-face semiconductor chips Electricity 3 Expired
US6741616B1 Switch fabric for asynchronously transferring data within a circuit Electricity 3 Expired
US6065109A Arbitration logic using a four-phase signaling protocol for control of a counterflow pipeline processor Physics 2 Expired
US5955898A Selector and decision wait using pass gate XOR Electricity 2 Expired
US8102020B2 Equalization in proximity communication Electricity 1 Active
US7384804B2 Method and apparatus for electronically aligning capacitively coupled mini-bars Electricity 1 Active
US7296176B1 Method and apparatus for limiting the number of asynchronous events that occur during a clock cycle Physics 0 Expired
US8222924B2 Asynchronous FIFO circuit for long-distance on-chip communication Electricity 0 Active
US8735184B2 Equalization in proximity communication Electricity 0 Active
US8023555B2 Repeater circuit Electricity 0 Active

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