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Michael Couleur — 34 Patents

Apple: 22 patents #1,475 of 18,612Top 8%
TITexas Instruments: 12 patents #1,161 of 12,488Top 10%
Sutten, DE: #1 of 1 inventorsTop 100%
Overall (All Time): #100,737 of 4,157,543Top 3%
34 Patents All Time
Michael Couleur has been granted 34 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in October 2025. Michael Couleur ranks #100,737 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.4%). Patent records list Michael Couleur in Sutten, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2013 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2018.peak 62013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162018: 6 patents2019: 5 patents20192020: 6 patents2021: 4 patents20212022: 2 patents2023: 4 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 34 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12451796 Bootstrapped power switch for a negative buck-boost low-side Bhanupriya Suresh 2025-10-21
12212237 Voltage regulator with pulse frequency control Bogdan-Eugen Matei, Ming SUN, Bhanupriya Suresh 2025-01-28
12155304 Multi-level power converter with low-gain phase-locked loop control Nicola Rasera, Nikola Jovanovic 2024-11-26 $261,880,000
11837955 Bias generation for power converter control Nikola Jovanovic, Bhanupriya Suresh 2023-12-05 $213,405,000
11777398 Pre-charging bootstrapped FET gate Giulio Maria Iadicicco, Siarhei Meliukh 2023-10-03 $152,687,000
11594967 Hysteretic current control switching power converter with clock-controlled switching frequency Nicola Rasera, Nikola Jovanovic, Pietro Gambetta 2023-02-28 $171,651,000
11552563 Voltage regulator with dv/dt detection Nikola Jovanovic, Siarhei Meliukh 2023-01-10 $215,259,000
11381172 Control system with voltage-to-time converter for combined buck-boost converter using a single inductor Nicola Rasera, Siarhei Meliukh 2022-07-05 $213,612,000
11349396 Interleaved pulse frequency modulation mode for a multi-phase buck converter using coupled inductors Shawn Searles, Nikola Jovanovic 2022-05-31 $175,196,000
11171563 Phase regulation in a peak current mode power converter Yesim Inam, Dashun Xue 2021-11-09 $270,325,000
11086378 Reconfigurable multi-phase power converter Nicola Rasera, Siarhei Meliukh 2021-08-10 $279,194,000
10903741 Regulated power converter with adiabatic charge pump Nikola Javanovic, Siarhei Meliukh 2021-01-26 $257,028,000
10884043 Power converter with phase error correction Andrea Acquas, Nikola Jovanovic 2021-01-05 $299,526,000
10804803 Combined buck-boost converter using a single inductor Nicola Rasera, Siarhei Meliukh 2020-10-13 $241,153,000
10763750 Noise suppression in voltage regulator circuits Nikola Jovanovic 2020-09-01 $178,515,000
10707761 Power converter with on-resistance compensation Andrea Acquas, Nicola Rasera 2020-07-07 $144,181,000
10644592 DC-DC converter with a dynamically adapting load-line Fabio Ongaro 2020-05-05 $109,977,000
10630174 Transient event detector circuit and method Neil Gibson, Antonio Priego 2020-04-21 $23,067,000
10601412 Circuit and method to generate frequency proportional current Neil Gibson, Antonio Priego 2020-03-24 $17,530,000
10425009 On-time modulation for phase locking in a buck converter using coupled inductors Fabio Ongaro, Dashun Xue 2019-09-24 $183,092,000
10348198 Systems and methods for generating a feedback current in a DC-DC converter Fabio Ongaro 2019-07-09 $98,822,000
10340803 DC-DC converter having predicted zero inductor current Neil Gibson, Antonio Priego, Stefan Herzer, Syed Wasif Mehdi 2019-07-02 $22,542,000
10256728 Multiphase interleaved pulse frequency modulation for a DC-DC converter Fabio Ongaro, Nikola Jovanovic, Frank Trautmann 2019-04-09 $118,341,000
10199929 Transient event detector circuit and method Neil Gibson, Antonio Priego 2019-02-05 $20,780,000
10148177 Multiphase converter with phase interleaving Stefan Herzer, Antonio Priego 2018-12-04 $33,002,000