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Peter Wood — 24 Patents

IRInternational Rectifier: 13 patents #38 of 432Top 9%
WEWestinghouse Electric: 7 patents #394 of 5,212Top 8%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Peter Wood has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at International Rectifier. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in January 2018. Peter Wood ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Peter Wood in Aberdeen, PA, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1998.peak 41980: 1 patents19801982: 1 patents1984: 2 patents19841985: 1 patents1986: 1 patents19861988: 3 patents1995: 1 patents19951996: 2 patents1997: 1 patents19971998: 4 patents1999: 2 patents19992003: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082015: 1 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9863208 Isolation barrier David Glen Martin, Davidson Harman, Cameron Hill Radtke, William Luke McElligott 2018-01-09
9708879 Isolation barrier Daniel O'Brien 2017-07-18
9011566 Filter cartridge apparatus Indal Looknauth, Gord Heyting 2015-04-21
7321210 Sensorless brushless direct current motor drive using pulse width modulation speed control at motor frequency 2008-01-22 $6,821,000
6627961 Hybrid IGBT and MOSFET for zero current at zero voltage Richard Francis, Ranadeep Dutta, Chiu Ng 2003-09-30 $17,558,000
6002213 MOS gate driver circuit with analog input and variable dead time band 1999-12-14 $7,295,000
5932974 Ballast circuit with lamp removal protection and soft starting 1999-08-03 $11,860,000
5805433 Small offline power supply 1998-09-08 $1,954,000
5796215 Soft start circuit for self-oscillating drivers John Parry 1998-08-18 $2,155,000
5757141 MOSgate driver for ballast circuits 1998-05-26 $1,583,000
5747943 MOS gate driver integrated circuit for ballast circuits Talbott M. Houk 1998-05-05 $7,141,000
5612597 Oscillating driver circuit with power factor correction, electronic lamp ballast employing same and driver method 1997-03-18 $8,313,000
5559394 MOS gate driver for ballast circuits 1996-09-24 $5,430,000
5545955 MOS gate driver for ballast circuits 1996-08-13 $15,084,000
5387847 Passive power factor ballast circuit for the gas discharge lamps 1995-02-07 $5,006,000
4775800 Power-supply apparatus 1988-10-04 $5,790,000
4757435 Static-controlled current-source AC/DC power converter and DC/AC power converter, and protection system embodying the same Laszlo Gyugyi 1988-07-12 $6,695,000
4750098 Unrestricted frequency changer with current source output Theodore M. Heinrich, Andress Kernick 1988-06-07 $4,476,000
4603551 Wave power converter 1986-08-05
4511815 Transformer-isolated power MOSFET driver circuit 1985-04-16 $1,831,000
4472641 Power supply apparatus David E. Dickey 1984-09-18 $4,965,000
4463400 DC Static switch with phase commutation Derek A. Paice 1984-07-31 $2,775,000
4348631 Static VAR generator Laszlo Gyugyi 1982-09-07 $2,155,000
4234843 Static VAR generator with discrete capacitive current levels Laszlo Gyugyi 1980-11-18 $2,494,000