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Kenneth S. McElvain — 106 Patents

SYSynopsys: 71 patents #2 of 2,302Top 1%
SYSynplicity: 35 patents #1 of 31Top 4%
Los Altos, CA: #56 of 3,651 inventorsTop 2%
California: #2,032 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #12,931 of 4,157,543Top 1%
106 Patents All Time
Kenneth S. McElvain has been granted 106 US patents while listed as an inventor at Synopsys. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in May 2019. Kenneth S. McElvain ranks #12,931 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.31%). Patent records list Kenneth S. McElvain in Los Altos, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 13 patents in 2012.peak 132001: 1 patents20012002: 3 patents2003: 4 patents20032004: 5 patents2005: 4 patents20052006: 7 patents2007: 8 patents20072008: 6 patents2009: 6 patents20092010: 6 patents2011: 10 patents20112012: 13 patents2013: 9 patents20132014: 13 patents2015: 6 patents20152016: 2 patents2019: 3 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 106 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10296690 Optimizing designs of integrated circuits Jovanka Ciric Vujkovic 2019-05-21 $24,745,000
10296689 Automated bottom-up and top-down partitioned design synthesis Smita Bakshi, Gael Paul 2019-05-21 $24,745,000
10268797 Architectural physical synthesis Benoit Lemonnier, William Halpin 2019-04-23 $17,928,000
9285796 Approximate functional matching in electronic systems Igor Markov 2016-03-15 $5,443,000
9280632 Methods and apparatuses for circuit design and optimization Saurabh Adya, Gael Paul 2016-03-08 $4,348,000
9208281 Optimizing designs of integrated circuits Jovanka Ciric Vujkovic 2015-12-08 $6,570,000
9195790 Statistical formal activity analysis with consideration of temporal and spatial correlations Zhenyu Gu 2015-11-24 $7,008,000
9069920 Automated circuit design Bing Tian 2015-06-30 $11,060,000
9038013 Circuit partitioning and trace assignment in circuit design Awartika Pandey, Drazen Borkovic 2015-05-19 $8,093,000
8990743 Automated circuit design Champaka Ramachandran, Andrew Crews 2015-03-24 $7,348,000
8966415 Architectural physical synthesis Benoit Lemonnier, William Halpin 2015-02-24 $7,330,000
8881086 Integrated circuit devices and methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuit devices 2014-11-04 $4,093,000
8881088 Thermal analysis based circuit design Khalid Rahmat 2014-11-04 $4,093,000
8843862 Method and apparatus for creating and changing logic representations in a logic design using arithmetic flexibility of numeric formats for data 2014-09-23 $3,498,000
8819608 Architectural physical synthesis Benoit Lemonnier, William Halpin 2014-08-26 $10,645,000
8756557 Techniques for use with automated circuit design and simulations Chun Kit Ng, Richard C. Maixner, Mario Larouche 2014-06-17 $8,690,000
8732645 Placement and routing cells on integrated circuit chips Roger P. Ang, Ken R. McElvain 2014-05-20 $2,143,000
8729922 Licensing programmable hardware sub-designs using a host-identifier 2014-05-20 $2,143,000
8726219 Analysis of digital circuits with time division multiplexing Drazen Borkovic 2014-05-13 $3,683,000
8724665 Pseudo-synchronous time division multiplexing 2014-05-13 $3,683,000
8701068 Interconnection device in a multi-layer shielding mesh William Halpin 2014-04-15 $2,542,000
8689165 Optimizing designs of integrated circuits Jovanka Ciric Vujkovic 2014-04-01 $3,035,000
8656327 Statistical formal activity analysis with consideration of temporal and spatial correlations Zhenyu Gu 2014-02-18 $8,797,000
8640061 Automated circuit design Bing Tian 2014-01-28 $10,346,000
8595674 Architectural physical synthesis Benoit Lemonnier, William Halpin 2013-11-26 $4,612,000