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Richard G. Cliff — 170 Patents

Intel: 166 patents #81 of 30,777Top 1%
PLPilkington Micro-Electronics Limited: 1 patents #3 of 14Top 25%
PLPlessey Overseas Limited: 1 patents #89 of 263Top 35%
SCSmiths Interconnect Microwave Components: 1 patents #5 of 18Top 30%
Los Altos, CA: #21 of 3,651 inventorsTop 1%
California: #788 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #4,802 of 4,157,543Top 1%
170 Patents All Time
Richard G. Cliff has been granted 170 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in May 2017. Richard G. Cliff ranks #4,802 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.12%). Patent records list Richard G. Cliff in Los Altos, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 21 patents in 2001.peak 211991: 2 patents19911993: 8 patents1994: 1 patents1995: 2 patents19951996: 10 patents1997: 6 patents1998: 14 patents19981999: 13 patents2000: 20 patents2001: 21 patents20012002: 18 patents2003: 9 patents2004: 8 patents20042005: 9 patents2006: 5 patents2007: 5 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 3 patents2010: 2 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 3 patents2013: 3 patents20132014: 3 patents2015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 170 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7119574 Passage structures for use in low-voltage applications Andy L. Lee, Wanli Chang, Cameron McClintock, John E. Turner, Brian Johnson +2 more 2006-10-10 $7,304,000
7109748 Integrated circuits with reduced standby power consumption Yow-Juang Liu, Hugh Sungki O 2006-09-19 $3,186,000
7058920 Methods for designing PLD architectures for flexible placement of IP function blocks Andy L. Lee, Cameron McClintock, Brian Johnson, Srinivas T. Reddy, Chris Lane +3 more 2006-06-06 $6,944,000
7034570 I/O cell configuration for multiple I/O standards Cameron McClintock, Bonnie I. Wang 2006-04-25 $12,541,000
6977520 Time-multiplexed routing in a programmable logic device architecture Michael D. Hutton 2005-12-20 $21,389,000
6970014 Routing architecture for a programmable logic device David Lewis, Paul Leventis, Andy L. Lee, Brian Johnson, Srinivas T. Reddy +5 more 2005-11-29 $7,491,000
6940307 Integrated circuits with reduced standby power consumption Yow-Juang Liu, Hugh Sungki O 2005-09-06 $15,913,000
6897679 Programmable logic array integrated circuits L. Todd Cope, Cameron R. Mc Clintock, William Leong, James A. Watson, Joseph Huang +1 more 2005-05-24 $21,058,000
6895570 System and method for optimizing routing lines in a programmable logic device David Lewis, Vaughn Betz, Paul Leventis, Michael Chan, Cameron McClintock +3 more 2005-05-17 $20,313,000
6882177 Tristate structures for programmable logic devices Srinivas T. Reddy 2005-04-19 $24,543,000
6879183 Programmable logic device architectures with super-regions having logic regions and a memory region David Jefferson, Cameron McClintock, James Schleicher, Andy L. Lee, Manuel Mejia +3 more 2005-04-12 $73,042,000
6857043 Shift register implementations of first-in/first-out memories utilizing a double increment gray code counter Andy L. Lee, Brian Johnson 2005-02-15 $25,949,000
6842040 Differential interconnection circuits in programmable logic devices Wanli Chang, Andy L. Lee, Cameron McClintock, Richard Yen-Hsiang Chang 2005-01-11 $23,811,000
6836151 I/O cell configuration for multiple I/O standards Cameron McClintock, Bonnie I. Wang 2004-12-28 $20,369,000
6815981 Programmable logic array integrated circuit devices Srinivas T. Reddy, David Jefferson, Rina Raman, L. Todd Cope, Christopher F. Lane +7 more 2004-11-09 $89,773,000
RE38651 Variable depth and width memory device Chiakang Sung, Wanli Chang, Joseph Huang, L. Todd Cope, Cameron McClintock +3 more 2004-11-09
6798242 Programmable logic device with hierarchical interconnection resources Srinivas T. Reddy, Christopher F. Lane, Ketan Zaveri, Manuel Mejia, David Jefferson +2 more 2004-09-28 $19,795,000
6759870 Programmable logic array integrated circuits Bahram Ahanin, Craig Lytle, Francis B. Heile, Bruce B. Pedersen, Kerry Veenstra 2004-07-06 $42,079,000
6720796 Multiple size memories in a programmable logic device Srinivas T. Reddy, David Jefferson, Christopher F. Lane, Vikram Santurkar 2004-04-13 $71,135,000
6714050 I/O cell configuration for multiple I/O standards Cameron McClintock, Bonnie I. Wang 2004-03-30 $17,506,000
6681378 Programming mode selection with JTAG circuits Xiaobao Wang, Chiakang Sung, Joseph Huang, Bonnie I. Wang, Khai Nguyen 2004-01-20 $43,728,000
6661253 Passgate structures for use in low-voltage applications Andy L. Lee, Wanli Chang, Cameron McClintock, John E. Turner, Brian Johnson +2 more 2003-12-09 $42,503,000
6657456 Programmable logic with on-chip DLL or PLL to distribute clock David Jefferson, L. Todd Cope, Srinivas T. Reddy 2003-12-02 $46,154,000
6646467 PCI-compatible programmable logic devices Francis B. Heile, Joseph Huang, David W. Mendel, Bruce B. Pendersen, Chiakang Sung +2 more 2003-11-11 $44,782,000
6630842 Routing architecture for a programmable logic device David Lewis, Paul Leventis, Andy L. Lee, Brian Johnson, Srinivas T. Reddy +5 more 2003-10-07 $26,394,000