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Chinh Nguyen — 23 Patents

PMProgrammable Microelectronics: 7 patents #4 of 20Top 20%
Globalfoundries: 6 patents #578 of 4,424Top 15%
SSStmicroelectronics Sa: 4 patents #1,557 of 1,676Top 95%
GUGlobalfoundries U.S.: 2 patents #215 of 665Top 35%
OMOutboard Marine: 1 patents #244 of 426Top 60%
WAWinbond Electronics North America: 1 patents #2 of 5Top 40%
Austin, TX: #1,404 of 18,064 inventorsTop 8%
Texas: #5,758 of 125,132 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Chinh Nguyen has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Programmable Microelectronics. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in November 2024. Chinh Nguyen ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Chinh Nguyen in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 1999.peak 71992: 1 patents19921993: 1 patents1997: 2 patents19971998: 3 patents1999: 7 patents19992001: 1 patents2013: 3 patents20132015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162020: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12148702 Semiconductor device with transistor local interconnects Mahbub Rashed, Irene Y. Lin, Steven R. Soss, Jeff Kim, Marc Tarabbia +3 more 2024-11-19 $68,003,000
11444031 Semiconductor device with transistor local interconnects Mahbub Rashed, Irene Y. Lin, Steven R. Soss, Jeff Kim, Marc Tarabbia +3 more 2022-09-13 $109,884,000
10833018 Semiconductor device with transistor local interconnects Mahbub Rashed, Irene Y. Lin, Steven R. Soss, Jeff Kim, Marc Tarabbia +3 more 2020-11-10 $61,528,000
9355910 Semiconductor device with transistor local interconnects Mahbub Rashed, Irene Y. Lin, Steven R. Soss, Jeff Kim, Marc Tarabbia +3 more 2016-05-31 $2,120,000
8987128 Cross-coupling based design using diffusion contact structures Mahbub Rashed, Marc Tarabbia, David Doman, Juhan Kim, Xiang Qi +1 more 2015-03-24 $1,742,000
8618607 Semiconductor devices formed on a continuous active region with an isolating conductive structure positioned between such semiconductor devices, and methods of making same Mahbub Rashed, David Doman, Marc Tarabbia, Irene Y. Lin, Jeff Kim +4 more 2013-12-31 $2,797,000
8598633 Semiconductor device having contact layer providing electrical connections Marc Tarabbia, James B. Gullette, Mahbub Rashed, David Doman, Irene Y. Lin +12 more 2013-12-03 $5,374,000
8581348 Semiconductor device with transistor local interconnects Mahbub Rashed, Steven R. Soss, Jongwook Kye, Irene Y. Lin, James B. Gullette +9 more 2013-11-12 $1,972,000
6204721 Method and apparatus for switching a well potential in response to an output voltage Guy S. Yuen 2001-03-20
6005359 Power down brake latch circuit for a brushless DC motor Massimiliano Brambilla, Eugene Lee 1999-12-21 $42,796,000
5982693 Sense amplifier with improved bit line initialization 1999-11-09
5977734 Circuit and method for determining optimal phase combination for startup of a polyphase DC motor Li-Hsin D. Lu, Francis Yu 1999-11-02 $17,137,000
5973967 Page buffer having negative voltage level shifter Andy Yu, Vikram Kowshik, Vishal Sarin 1999-10-26
5943268 Non-volatile latch having PMOS floating gate memory cells 1999-08-24
5943265 Method and apparatus for switching nodes between multiple potentials Guy S. Yuen 1999-08-24
5909392 PMOS memory array having OR gate architecture Shang-De Ted Chang, Guy S. Yuen, Chi-Tay Huang 1999-06-01
5801994 Non-volatile memory array architecture Shang-De Ted Chang, Guy S. Yuen 1998-09-01
5767654 Apparatus and method for detecting motor position in PWM operation of a polyphase DC motor Paolo Menegoli 1998-06-16 $14,271,000
5723963 Apparatus and method for controlling transition between PWM and linear operation of a motor Larry B. Li, Masimiliano Brambilla, Eugene Lee, Athos Canclini 1998-03-03 $14,397,000
5638011 Digital to analog converter (DAC) current source arrangement 1997-06-10
5608369 Magnetic gap construction Christopher R. Irgens, Philip D. McDowell, James Bonifield 1997-03-04 $1,805,000
5272432 DAC current source with stabilizing bias Wei-Chan Hsu 1993-12-21
5142219 Switchable current-reference voltage generator Wei-Chan Hsu, Fred Cheng 1992-08-25