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William E. Miller — 20 Patents

NSNational Semiconductor: 16 patents #87 of 2,238Top 4%
BTBelden Technologies: 1 patents #8 of 16Top 50%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
Hampton, VA: #5 of 414 inventorsTop 2%
Virginia: #1,283 of 34,511 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
William E. Miller has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at National Semiconductor. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in June 2008. William E. Miller ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list William E. Miller in Hampton, VA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1982 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1993.peak 31982: 1 patents19821986: 1 patents1989: 2 patents19891992: 2 patents1993: 3 patents19931994: 1 patents1995: 1 patents19951996: 2 patents1997: 3 patents19971999: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002006: 1 patents2008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7388404 Driver circuit that limits the voltage of a wave front launched onto a transmission line 2008-06-17 $4,025,000
7049523 Separable multi-member composite cable Brian Shuman, Thomas L. Rodeghero, Galen Mark Gareis, Charles Robert Barnett, III 2006-05-23 $7,659,000
6118439 Low current voltage supply circuit for an LCD driver Franklin Sai-Wai Ho, Ying ZHONG, Richard E. Crippen 2000-09-12 $19,922,000
6005429 I.sub.cc current electromagnetic interference choke with multiple choking levels Freeman Zhong 1999-12-21 $24,356,000
5657444 Microprocessor with secure programmable read only memory circuit Christopher Michael Hall 1997-08-12 $11,820,000
5623686 Non-volatile memory control and data loading architecture for multiple chip processor Christopher Michael Hall, Gary D. Phillips, David W. Weinrich, Robert M. Salter, III, Richard E. Crippen 1997-04-22 $5,227,000
5606710 Multiple chip package processor having feed through paths on one die Christopher Michael Hall, Gary D. Phillips, David W. Weinrich, Robert M. Salter, III, Richard E. Crippen 1997-02-25 $8,227,000
5581779 Multiple chip processor architecture with memory interface control register for in-system programming Christopher Michael Hall, Gary D. Phillips, David W. Weinrich, Robert M. Salter, III, Richard E. Crippen 1996-12-03 $6,349,000
5566344 In-system programming architecture for a multiple chip processor Christopher Michael Hall, Gary D. Phillips, David W. Weinrich, Richard E. Crippen, Robert M. Salter, III 1996-10-15 $4,494,000
5432103 Method of making semiconductor ROM cell programmed using source mask 1995-07-11 $11,830,000
5301084 Electrostatic discharge protection for CMOS integrated circuits 1994-04-05 $24,873,000
5255146 Electrostatic discharge detection and clamp control circuit 1993-10-19 $5,019,000
D336044 Spout Eugene Spray 1993-06-01
5200802 Semiconductor ROM cell programmed using source mask 1993-04-06 $4,264,000
5120992 CMOS output driver with transition time control circuit Franklin Sai-Wai Ho 1992-06-09 $4,888,000
5091328 Method of late programming MOS devices 1992-02-25 $3,353,000
4857985 MOS IC reverse battery protection 1989-08-15 $2,368,000
4835416 V.sub.DD load dump protection circuit 1989-05-30 $1,871,000
4620243 Disk drive incremental rewrite Kirby L. Bakken, Robert G. Judson, Ronald A. Peterson 1986-10-28 $35,108,000
4331873 Photocapacitive image converter Robert A. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Frosch, Arden Sher, Yuan H. Tsuo 1982-05-25