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William Hemena — 26 Patents

IBM: 26 patents #4,017 of 70,183Top 6%
Lexington, KY: #69 of 2,526 inventorsTop 3%
Kentucky: #273 of 11,577 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
William Hemena has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in March 2005. William Hemena ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list William Hemena in Lexington, KY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2005Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2002.peak 81996: 1 patents19962000: 4 patents20002001: 5 patents20012002: 8 patents20022003: 4 patents20032004: 2 patents20042005: 2 patents2005

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6865094 Circuit for AC adapter to reduce power drawn from an AC power source Randhir S. Malik, Diep N. Ho 2005-03-08 $6,470,000
6850396 Fail safe circuit with reset capability for a power supply Raymond M. Clemo, Eino A. Lindfors, Randhir S. Malik 2005-02-01 $8,680,000
6747424 Integrated fan speed control and fault detection circuitry Randhir S. Malik 2004-06-08 $6,083,000
6697955 Method and apparatus for using an energy reserve to provide voltage to a power factor correction circuit in the event of a power interuption Randhir S. Malik 2004-02-24 $14,484,000
6621180 Method and system for maintaining full power during a power interruption in a multiple power supply system Cecil C. Dishman, Eino A. Lindfors, Randhir S. Malik 2003-09-16 $13,659,000
6621718 Resonant converter circuit Randhir S. Malik 2003-09-16 $13,659,000
6615146 Failure detection of an isolation device with PFA signal generation in a redundant power supply system Randhir S. Malik, Eino A. Lindfors 2003-09-02 $11,479,000
6522190 High efficiency multiple input voltage sources power supply Randhir S. Malik, Trung M. Nguyen 2003-02-18 $14,090,000
6487098 Power factor correction (PFC) circuit that eliminates an inrush current limit circuit Randhir S. Malik 2002-11-26 $15,755,000
6487095 Multiphase zero-volt-switching resonant DC-DC regulator Randhir S. Malik, Thai Quoc Ngo, Scott D. Strand 2002-11-26 $15,755,000
6459603 Adapter circuit for selectively doubling input voltage depending upon connector type Randhir S. Malik 2002-10-01 $10,556,000
6448744 Power factor correction circuit Randhir S. Malik 2002-09-10 $13,066,000
6445165 Circuit for limiting inrush current to a power source Randhir S. Malik 2002-09-03 $9,688,000
6442052 High efficiency power converter with fast transient response Thai Quoc Ngo, Scott D. Strand 2002-08-27 $8,564,000
6434026 Multiple output power supply circuit Randhir S. Malik 2002-08-13 $10,700,000
6400582 Dual forward power converter utilizing coupling capacitors for improved efficiency Thai Quoc Ngo, Scott D. Strand 2002-06-04 $11,648,000
6320771 Fault tolerant active current sharing Randhir S. Malik 2001-11-20 $26,885,000
6297970 Multiple output synchronous rectifier circuit providing zero volt switch mode operation Randhir S. Malik 2001-10-02 $27,385,000
6249411 Over-voltage protection circuit and method for preventing system shutdown in a power system employing multiple power supplies Randhir S. Malik 2001-06-19 $38,179,000
6188588 Switching controller and method for operating a flyback converter in a critically continuous conduction mode Randhir S. Malik 2001-02-13 $30,258,000
6181114 Boost circuit which includes an additional winding for providing an auxiliary output voltage Randhir S. Malik 2001-01-30 $13,187,000
6160386 Parallel power system which includes over voltage protection Randhir S. Malik 2000-12-12 $56,886,000
6160724 Boost doubler circuit wherein an AC bridge rectifier is not required Randhir S. Malik 2000-12-12 $56,886,000
6157555 Current limiter responsive to changing parallel power supply capacity Randhir S. Malik 2000-12-05 $46,958,000
6081752 Computer system having power supply primary sense to facilitate performance of tasks at power off Paul H. Benson, Duane Thomas Crump, deceased, Duane Edward Norris, Steven T. Pancoast 2000-06-27 $38,700,000