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Nigel G. Herron — 11 Patents

AMD: 11 patents #1,187 of 9,280Top 15%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
San Jose, CA: #5,902 of 32,062 inventorsTop 20%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Nigel G. Herron has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in September 2008. Nigel G. Herron ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Nigel G. Herron in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7420392 Programmable gate array and embedded circuitry initialization and processing David P. Schultz, Stephen M. Douglass, Steven P. Young, Mehul R. Vashi, Jane W. Sowards 2008-09-02 $7,129,000
7406670 Testing of an integrated circuit having an embedded processor Ahmad R. Ansari, Mehul R. Vashi, Stephen M. Douglass 2008-07-29 $11,036,000
7302663 Automatic antenna diode insertion for integrated circuits Andy H. Gan 2007-11-27 $2,940,000
7269805 Testing of an integrated circuit having an embedded processor Ahmad R. Ansari, Mehul R. Vashi, Stephen M. Douglass 2007-09-11 $6,656,000
7231621 Speed verification of an embedded processor in a programmable logic device Ahmad R. Ansari, Stephen M. Douglass, Anthony Correale, Jr., Leslie Mark DeBruyne 2007-06-12
7080300 Testing a programmable logic device with embedded fixed logic using a scan chain Eric J. Thorne, Qingqi Wang, Anthony Correale, Jr., Thomas Anderson Dick 2006-07-18 $25,327,000
6996758 Apparatus for testing an interconnecting logic fabric Eric J. Thorne, Qingqi Wang 2006-02-07 $11,680,000
6983405 Method and apparatus for testing circuitry embedded within a field programmable gate array Eric J. Thorne, Qingqi Wang 2006-01-03 $17,738,000
6978433 Method and apparatus for placement of vias Andy H. Gan 2005-12-20 $19,379,000
6798239 Programmable gate array having interconnecting logic to support embedded fixed logic circuitry Stephen M. Douglass, Steven P. Young, Mehul R. Vashi, Jane W. Sowards 2004-09-28 $24,167,000
6772405 Insertable block tile for interconnecting to a device embedded in an integrated circuit Andy H. Gan 2004-08-03 $38,967,000