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William S. Carter — 13 Patents

AMD: 10 patents #1,296 of 9,280Top 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
William S. Carter has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in March 2007. William S. Carter ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list William S. Carter in Kirkcaldy, CA, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2007Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1987.peak 41980: 1 patents19801987: 4 patents19871988: 1 patents19881989: 1 patents19891992: 1 patents19921993: 1 patents19931994: 1 patents19942003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents20042007: 1 patents2007

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7191342 Methods and circuits for allowing encrypted and unencrypted configuration data to share configuration frames Bernard J. New 2007-03-13 $7,278,000
6748368 Proprietary core permission structure and method Stephen M. Trimberger 2004-06-08 $96,061,000
6619620 Vehicle hoist 2003-09-16
5295090 Logic structure and circuit for fast carry Hung-Cheng Hsieh, Charles S. Erickson, Edmond Y. Cheung 1994-03-15 $12,431,000
5267187 Logic structure and circuit for fast carry Hung-Cheng Hsieh, Charles S. Erickson, Edmond Y. Cheung 1993-11-30
5140193 Programmable connector for programmable logic device Ross H. Freeman, Khue Duong, Hung-Cheng Hsieh, Charles R. Erickson 1992-08-18 $6,444,000
4855619 Buffered routing element for a user programmable logic device Hung-Cheng Hsieh 1989-08-08
4758985 Microprocessor oriented configurable logic element 1988-07-19
4713557 Bidirectional buffer amplifier 1987-12-15
4706216 Configurable logic element 1987-11-10
4695740 Bidirectional buffer amplifier 1987-09-22
4642487 Special interconnect for configurable logic array 1987-02-10
4234366 Wall and floor coverings comprising a substrate formed from comminuted, recycled, fiber-reinforced foam-containing sheets Douglas M. Brewer, Alan Mawson 1980-11-18