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William C. Black — 50 Patents

AMD: 26 patents #386 of 9,280Top 5%
NMNorthern Microdesign: 7 patents #1 of 1Top 100%
IUIowa State University: 6 patents #97 of 1,643Top 6%
BTBiomagnetic Technologies: 6 patents #6 of 40Top 15%
NINonvolatile Electronics, Incorporated: 2 patents #5 of 8Top 65%
NSNational Semiconductor: 1 patents #1,247 of 2,238Top 60%
HAHughes Aircraft: 1 patents #1,260 of 2,963Top 45%
Chapel Hill, NC: #46 of 1,999 inventorsTop 3%
North Carolina: #577 of 45,564 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #53,743 of 4,157,543Top 2%
50 Patents All Time
William C. Black has been granted 50 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in July 2016. William C. Black ranks #53,743 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.3%). Patent records list William C. Black in Chapel Hill, NC, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 50 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9391669 Communication using multiple conductor cable 2016-07-12
8989243 Power line device with directional coupler 2015-03-24
8489086 Use of powerlines for transmission of high frequency signals 2013-07-16
8488654 Spread spectrum communications using complex chip sequences 2013-07-16
8483656 Use of powerlines for transmission of high frequency signals 2013-07-09
8436658 Method and apparatus for signaling characteristics of a transmitted signal 2013-05-07 $7,302,000
8391343 PMA RX in coarse loop for high speed sampling Jerry Chuang, Scott A. Irwin 2013-03-05 $41,979,000
8116714 Use of powerlines for transmission of high frequency signals 2012-02-14
7885320 MGT/FPGA clock management system Eric D. Groen, Charles W. Boecker, Scott A. Irwin, Joseph Neil Kryzak 2011-02-08 $20,781,000
7830985 Analog front-end having built-in equalization and applications thereof Charles W. Boecker, Eric D. Groen 2010-11-09 $3,781,000
7747793 Method and apparatus for controlling a distributed buffering system having configurable circuitry Timothy W. Markison 2010-06-29 $1,823,000
7546499 Communication signal testing with a programmable logic device Matthew Shafer, Bodhisattva Das, Scott A. Irwin 2009-06-09 $6,153,000
7535962 Method and apparatus for signaling characteristics of a transmitted signal 2009-05-19 $2,833,000
7493095 PMA RX in coarse loop for high speed sampling Jerry Chuang, Scott A. Irwin 2009-02-17 $6,048,000
7480347 Analog front-end having built-in equalization and applications thereof Charles W. Boecker, Eric D. Groen 2009-01-20 $2,727,000
7406118 Programmable logic device including programmable multi-gigabit transceivers Eric D. Groen, Charles W. Boecker, Scott A. Irwin, Joseph Neil Kryzak, Yiqin Chen +2 more 2008-07-29 $11,036,000
7379517 Method and apparatus for signaling characteristics of a transmitted signal 2008-05-27 $3,924,000
7376205 Device and method for compensation of transmission line distortion 2008-05-20 $3,880,000
7376767 Distributed buffering system having programmable interconnecting logic and applications thereof Timothy W. Markison 2008-05-20 $3,880,000
7280590 Receiver termination network and application thereof Charles W. Boecker, Eric D. Groen 2007-10-09 $3,929,000
7227375 DAC based driver with selectable pre-emphasis signal levels Eric D. Groen, Charles W. Boecker 2007-06-05 $7,795,000
7224951 PMA RX in coarse loop for high speed sampling Jerry Chuang, Scott A. Irwin 2007-05-29 $7,759,000
7196545 High frequency latch Eric D. Groen, Charles W. Boecker 2007-03-27 $11,362,000
7188283 Communication signal testing with a programmable logic device Matthew Shafer, Bodhisattva Das, Scott A. Irwin 2007-03-06 $5,029,000
7142014 High frequency XOR with peaked load stage Eric D. Groen, Charles W. Boecker 2006-11-28 $3,263,000