William S. Coates
20Patents
7h-index
15Co-inventors
62Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 5, 1997 → Dec 30, 2011
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.