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Bryan Sheffield — 35 Patents

TITexas Instruments: 30 patents #332 of 12,488Top 3%
TSMC: 5 patents #4,208 of 12,232Top 35%
Austin, TX: #813 of 18,064 inventorsTop 5%
Texas: #3,079 of 125,132 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #96,288 of 4,157,543Top 3%
35 Patents All Time
Bryan Sheffield has been granted 35 US patents while listed as an inventor at Texas Instruments. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in December 2020. Bryan Sheffield ranks #96,288 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.3%). Patent records list Bryan Sheffield in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2007.peak 61998: 1 patents19981999: 3 patents2000: 1 patents20002004: 3 patents2005: 5 patents20052006: 4 patents2007: 6 patents20072008: 4 patents2009: 1 patents20092012: 2 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 35 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10867681 SRAM memory having subarrays with common IO block Michael Patrick Clinton, Marty Tsai, Rajinder Paul Singh 2020-12-15 $3,031,000
9419617 Circuit for reducing negative bias temperature instability Chan-Hong Chern, Fu-Lung Hsueh, Ming-Chieh Huang, Chih-Chang Lin 2016-08-16 $2,289,000
8791720 Circuit for reducing negative bias temperature instability Chan-Hong Chern, Fu-Lung Hsueh, Ming-Chieh Huang, Chih-Chang Lin 2014-07-29 $4,842,000
8570068 Circuit for reducing negative bias temperature instability Chan-Hong Chern, Fu-Lung Hsueh, Ming-Chieh Huang, Chih-Chang Lin 2013-10-29 $3,560,000
8522174 Semiconductor memory 2013-08-27 $4,022,000
8331187 Memory with low power mode for write Theodore W. Houston, Michael Patrick Clinton 2012-12-11 $16,145,000
8093716 Contact fuse which does not touch a metal layer Robert L. Pitts, Roger Griesmer, Joe W. McPherson 2012-01-10 $9,197,000
7512030 Memory with low power mode for WRITE Theodore W. Houston, Michael Patrick Clinton 2009-03-31 $10,408,000
7471536 Match mismatch emulation scheme for an addressed location in a CAM Rengarajan S. Krishnan, Rashmi Sachan, Nisha Padattil Kuliyampattil 2008-12-30 $15,979,000
7466576 Technique for CAM width expansion using an external priority encoder Santhosh Narayanaswamy, Robert J. Landers 2008-12-16 $9,333,000
7376871 CAM test structures and methods therefor George E. Harris, Dwayne Ward 2008-05-20 $11,789,000
7349285 Dual port memory unit using a single port memory core Suresh Balasubramanian, Lakshmikantha V. Holla 2008-03-25 $12,014,000
7301849 System for reducing row periphery power consumption in memory devices Xiaowei Deng, Theodore W. Houston 2007-11-27 $14,974,000
7274581 Array fault testing approach for TCAMs Theo J. Powell, Rashmi Sachan 2007-09-25 $14,695,000
7234034 Self-clocking memory device Stephen Wayne Spriggs, Vikas Agrawal, Eric Louis Pierre Badi 2007-06-19 $17,017,000
7230868 Stable source-coupled sense amplifier Sudhir K. Madan 2007-06-12 $18,826,000
7200730 Method of operating a memory at high speed using a cycle ready status output signal Vikas Agrawal, Stephen Wayne Spriggs, Eric Louis Pierre Badi 2007-04-03 $7,574,000
7170769 High performance and reduced area architecture for a fully parallel search of a TCAM cell Rashmi Sachan, Santhosh Narayanaswamy, George B. Jamison 2007-01-30 $14,657,000
7120082 System for reducing row periphery power consumption in memory devices Xiaowei Deng, Theodore W. Houston 2006-10-10 $9,355,000
7095671 Electrical fuse control of memory slowdown Manjeri Krishnan, Joel J. Graber, Duy-Loan T. Le, Sanjive Agarwala 2006-08-22 $20,935,000
7016245 Tracking circuit enabling quick/accurate retrieval of data stored in a memory array Suresh Balasubramanian, Stephen Wayne Spriggs, Mohan Mishra 2006-03-21 $22,573,000
7012846 Sense amplifier for a memory array Suresh Balasubramanian, Stephen Wayne Spriggs, Mohan Mishra 2006-03-14 $26,587,000
6956789 Cycle ready circuit for self-clocking memory device Vikas Agrawal, Stephen Wayne Spriggs 2005-10-18 $16,837,000
6928011 Electrical fuse control of memory slowdown Manjeri Krishnan, Joel J. Graber, Duy-Loan T. Le, Sanjive Agarwala 2005-08-09 $19,601,000
6909301 Oscillation based access time measurement Steven Korson, Brian D. Borchers, Clive Bittlestone, Doug Counce 2005-06-21 $18,135,000