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Jane W. Sowards — 11 Patents

AMD: 11 patents #1,207 of 9,280Top 15%
Fremont, CA: #1,631 of 9,298 inventorsTop 20%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Jane W. Sowards has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in January 2024. Jane W. Sowards ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Jane W. Sowards in Fremont, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2002.peak 22001: 1 patents20012002: 2 patents20022004: 1 patents20042008: 1 patents20082010: 2 patents20102011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents20122018: 1 patents20182024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11860228 Integrated circuit chip testing interface with reduced signal wires Albert Shih-Huai Lin, Niravkumar Patel, Amitava Majumdar 2024-01-02
9923051 Substrate noise isolation structures for semiconductor devices Jing Jing, Shuxian Wu 2018-03-20 $101,272,000
8224637 Method and apparatus for modeling transistors in an integrated circuit design Shuxian Wu, Kaiman Chan 2012-07-17 $5,121,000
7932563 Techniques for improving transistor-to-transistor stress uniformity Jung-Ching J. Ho, Shuxian Wu 2011-04-26 $8,691,000
7793238 Method and apparatus for improving a circuit layout using a hierarchical layout description Peter Rabkin, Zhiyuan Wu, Min-Hsing Chen, Michael J. Hart, Min-Fang Ho 2010-09-07 $5,512,000
7765498 Methods of incorporating process-induced layout dimension changes into an integrated circuit simulation netlist Jonathan Ho, Yan Wang, Xin Wu 2010-07-27 $4,055,000
7420392 Programmable gate array and embedded circuitry initialization and processing David P. Schultz, Stephen M. Douglass, Steven P. Young, Nigel G. Herron, Mehul R. Vashi 2008-09-02 $7,129,000
6798239 Programmable gate array having interconnecting logic to support embedded fixed logic circuitry Stephen M. Douglass, Steven P. Young, Nigel G. Herron, Mehul R. Vashi 2004-09-28 $24,167,000
6441641 Programmable logic device with partial battery backup Raymond C. Pang, Venu M. Kondapalli, Scott O. Frake, Jennifer Wong, F. Erich Goetting +2 more 2002-08-27 $53,701,000
6366117 Nonvolatile/battery-backed key in PLD Raymond C. Pang, Jennifer Wong, Scott O. Frake, Venu M. Kondapalli, F. Erich Goetting +2 more 2002-04-02 $73,316,000
6218864 Structure and method for generating a clock enable signal in a PLD Steven P. Young, Wilson K. Yee 2001-04-17 $57,440,000