Inventor

W Boyle

Patents indexed

Year range

1974

Associated with

Years active

1974

Total patents

Most recent

1974

Frequent collaborator

G Smith

Domains

semiconductorsconsumer_electronics

Activity by decade

1970s

Patents

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1974

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How Buried Channel CCDs Move Data Deep Inside Silicon Chips

A foundational 1974 invention that improved how computer chips store and move electrical charges by keeping them away from messy surface defects.

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