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Darrin Benzer — 9 Patents

Broadcom: 8 patents #1,328 of 9,346Top 15%
Motorola: 1 patents #14,103 of 14,142Top 100%
Chandler, AZ: #636 of 3,331 inventorsTop 20%
Arizona: #4,088 of 32,909 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Darrin Benzer has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Broadcom. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in July 2016. Darrin Benzer ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Darrin Benzer in Chandler, AZ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2007.peak 21998: 1 patents19982003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents20062007: 2 patents20072009: 1 patents20092013: 1 patents20132016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9391618 High voltage fail-safe IO design using thin oxide devices 2016-07-12
8400206 Low voltage input level shifter circuit and method for utilizing same 2013-03-19 $4,072,000
7521965 5 volt tolerant IO scheme using low-voltage devices Kent Oertle, Robert Elio, Duncan McFarland 2009-04-21 $6,125,000
7230469 Multi-level/single ended input level shifter circuit Robert Elio 2007-06-12 $10,608,000
7199612 Method and circuit for reducing HCI stress Kent Oertle, Robert Elio, Duncan McFarland 2007-04-03 $18,739,000
7119616 Method and apparatus for a fully differential amplifier output stage 2006-10-10 $7,447,000
6856168 5 Volt tolerant IO scheme using low-voltage devices Kent Oertle, Robert Elio, Duncan McFarland 2005-02-15 $17,093,000
6650167 Multi-level/single ended input level shifter circuit Robert Elio 2003-11-18 $15,607,000
5799049 Phase-independent clock circuit and method Duncan McFarland 1998-08-25 $10,159,000