Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Yohan Frans

45Patents
13h-index
63Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: May 9, 2003 → May 26, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6856169B2 Method and apparatus for signal reception using ground termination and/or non-ground termination Electricity 77 Expired
US9960902B1 Temporal change in data-crossing clock phase difference to resolve meta-stability in a clock and data recovery circuit Electricity 45 Active
US11107770B1 Integrated electrical/optical interface with two-tiered packaging Electricity 40 Active
US7061273B2 Method and apparatus for multi-mode driver Electricity 29 Expired
US10651933B1 Thermal calibration of a ring modulator Physics 21 Active
US7668271B2 Clock-data recovery (“CDR”) circuit, apparatus and method for variable frequency data Electricity 19 Expired
US7102390B2 Method and apparatus for signal reception using ground termination and/or non-ground termination Electricity 19 Expired
US6963232B2 Compensator for leakage through loop filter capacitors in phase-locked loops Electricity 19 Expired
US9882703B1 Resolving meta-stability in a clock and data recovery circuit Electricity 19 Active
US11005572B1 Temperature-locked loop for optical elements having a temperature-dependent response Electricity 17 Active
US11769710B2 Heterogeneous integration module comprising thermal management apparatus Electricity 17 Active
US9209960B1 Fast locking CDR for burst mode Electricity 17 Active
US10598852B1 Digital-to-analog converter (DAC)-based driver for optical modulators Physics 17 Active
US6879195B2 PLL lock detection circuit using edge detection Electricity 13 Expired
US9887710B1 Impedance and swing control for voltage-mode driver Electricity 13 Active
US7183805B2 Method and apparatus for multi-mode driver Electricity 12 Expired
US9379880B1 Clock recovery circuit Electricity 11 Active
US7248086B2 Leakage compensation for capacitors in loop filters Electricity 10 Expired
US8362642B2 Optimized power supply for an electronic system Physics 9 Active
US10680592B2 Quadrature clock correction circuit for transmitters Electricity 9 Active
US10868663B1 Flexible wide-range and high bandwidth auxiliary clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit for transceivers Electricity 9 Active
US10712770B1 Clock phase aligner for high speed data serializers Physics 8 Active
US9356775B1 Clock data recovery (CDR) phase walk scheme in a phase-interpolater-based transceiver system Electricity 8 Active
US9602082B2 Offset insensitive quadrature clock error correction and duty cycle calibration for high-speed clocking Electricity 8 Active
US10256968B1 Systems and methods for clock and data recovery Electricity 6 Active

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