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Wei-Yi Ku — 11 Patents

AMD: 11 patents #1,220 of 9,280Top 15%
Cupertino, CA: #1,483 of 6,989 inventorsTop 25%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Wei-Yi Ku has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in October 2002. Wei-Yi Ku ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Wei-Yi Ku in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1997.peak 41994: 2 patents19941996: 2 patents19961997: 4 patents19971998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992002: 1 patents2002

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6466049 Clock enable control circuit for flip flops Sholeh Diba, Jeffrey H. Seltzer 2002-10-15 $13,840,000
5991880 Overridable data protection mechanism for PLDs Derek R. Curd, Neil G. Jacobson, Sholeh Diba, Napoleon W. Lee, Kameswara K. Rao 1999-11-23 $39,764,000
5838901 Overridable data protection mechanism for PLDs Derek R. Curd, Neil G. Jacobson, Sholeh Diba, Napoleon W. Lee, Kameswara K. Rao 1998-11-17 $17,149,000
5670896 High speed product term assignment for output enable, clock, inversion and set/reset in a programmable logic device Sholeh Diba 1997-09-23 $23,471,000
5631583 Sense amplifier for programmable logic device having selectable power modes Napoleon W. Lee 1997-05-20 $25,011,000
5617041 Method and apparatus for reducing coupling switching noise in interconnect array matrix Napoleon W. Lee, Hy V. Nguyen, Sholeh Diba 1997-04-01 $11,954,000
5610536 Macrocell architecture with high speed product terms Sholeh Diba 1997-03-11 $15,032,000
5563827 Wordline driver for flash PLD Napoleon W. Lee, Derek R. Curd, Sholeh Diba, George H. Simmons 1996-10-08 $11,438,000
5530384 Sense amplifier having selectable power and speed modes Napoleon W. Lee 1996-06-25 $19,717,000
5361229 Precharging bitlines for robust reading of latch data David Chiang 1994-11-01 $7,693,000
5349249 Programmable logic device having security elements located amongst configuration bit location to prevent unauthorized reading David Chiang, Thomas Y. Ho, George H. Simmons, Robert W. Barker, II 1994-09-20 $3,402,000