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William S. Coates — 20 Patents

Oracle: 20 patents #440 of 14,854Top 3%
Redwood City, CA: #459 of 5,061 inventorsTop 10%
California: #29,208 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
William S. Coates has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Oracle. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in May 2014. William S. Coates ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list William S. Coates in Redwood City, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2012.peak 31999: 2 patents19992000: 2 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 2 patents2007: 2 patents20072008: 2 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents2012: 3 patents20122014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8735184 Equalization in proximity communication Ronald Ho, Robert D. Hopkins, Robert J. Drost 2014-05-27 $51,938,000
8222924 Asynchronous FIFO circuit for long-distance on-chip communication Robert J. Drost, Josephus C. Ebergen 2012-07-17 $31,820,000
8130821 Equalization in capacitively coupled communication links Robert D. Hopkins, Ronald Ho, Robert J. Drost 2012-03-06 $50,055,000
8102020 Equalization in proximity communication Ronald Ho, Robert D. Hopkins, Robert J. Drost 2012-01-24 $31,159,000
8023555 Repeater circuit Scott M. Fairbanks 2011-09-20 $28,688,000
7994501 Method and apparatus for electronically aligning capacitively coupled mini-bars Robert J. Drost, Ivan E. Sutherland 2011-08-09 $28,879,000
7701254 Reconfigurable circuits Alex Chow, Robert D. Hopkins 2010-04-20 $20,289,000
7384804 Method and apparatus for electronically aligning capacitively coupled mini-bars Robert J. Drost, Ivan E. Sutherland 2008-06-10 $9,064,000
7369726 Optical communication between face-to-face semiconductor chips Robert J. Drost 2008-05-06 $7,067,000
7296176 Method and apparatus for limiting the number of asynchronous events that occur during a clock cycle Jo C. Ebergen, Robert J. Drost, Ian W. Jones 2007-11-13 $6,703,000
7256628 Speed-matching control method and circuit Robert J. Drost, Josephus C. Ebergen 2007-08-14 $7,912,000
6741616 Switch fabric for asynchronously transferring data within a circuit Ivan E. Sutherland, Ian W. Jones 2004-05-25 $12,562,000
6694389 Method and apparatus for data flow analysis Mark R. Greenstreet 2004-02-17 $14,235,000
6600325 Method and apparatus for probing an integrated circuit through capacitive coupling Robert J. Bosnyak, Ivan E. Sutherland 2003-07-29 $11,628,000
6360288 Method and modules for control of pipelines carrying data using pipelines carrying control signals Ivan E. Sutherland, Charles E. Molnar, Robert F. Sproull 2002-03-19 $42,609,000
6169422 Apparatus and methods for high throughput self-timed domino circuits David L. Harris 2001-01-02 $228,254,000
6085316 Layered counterflow pipeline processor with anticipatory control Ivan E. Sutherland, Charles E. Molnar, Ian W. Jones, Jon Lexau 2000-07-04
6065109 Arbitration logic using a four-phase signaling protocol for control of a counterflow pipeline processor — 2000-05-16 $125,663,000
5955898 Selector and decision wait using pass gate XOR Ivan E. Sutherland, Jon Lexau 1999-09-21 $84,680,000
5943491 Control circuit of mutual exclusion elements Ivan E. Sutherland, Robert F. Sproull 1999-08-24 $52,294,000

Frequent Collaborators

Robert J. Drost9 shared
Ivan E. Sutherland8 shared
Robert D. Hopkins4 shared
Ian W. Jones3 shared
Ronald Ho3 shared
Charles E. Molnar2 shared

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