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David Hightower — 4 Patents

ACActel: 4 patents #57 of 156Top 40%
Merced, CA: #54 of 257 inventorsTop 25%
California: #126,026 of 386,348 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
David Hightower has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Actel. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in February 2011. David Hightower ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list David Hightower in Merced, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2004.peak 12004: 1 patents20042006: 1 patents20062009: 1 patents20092011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7886130 Field programmable gate array and microcontroller system-on-a-chip Arunangshu Kundu, Arnold Goldfein, William C. Plants 2011-02-08
7516303 Field programmable gate array and microcontroller system-on-a-chip Arunangshu Kundu, Arnold Goldfein, William C. Plants 2009-04-07 $3,566,000
7069419 Field programmable gate array and microcontroller system-on-a-chip Arunangshu Kundu, Arnold Goldfein, William C. Plants 2006-06-27 $2,215,000
6751723 Field programmable gate array and microcontroller system-on-a-chip Arunangshu Kundu, Arnold Goldfein, William C. Plants 2004-06-15 $1,768,000