Talbott M. Houk — 18 Patents at International Rectifier

Talbott M. Houk has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at International Rectifier. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in August 2025. Talbott M. Houk ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Talbott M. Houk in Monte Sereno, CA, US.

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Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12393257	Wakeup circuit	Wenxun Huang, Nikola Jovanovic, Floyd L. Dankert, Sanjay Pant, Alessandro Molari +12 more	2025-08-19
10581330	Metered charge transfer assisted switching regulators	Damon Lee, Jamie L. Langlinais, Jonathan M. Audy, Mark A. Yoshimoto, Rajarshi Paul	2020-03-03	$97,833,000
10305305	Unified high power and low power battery charger	Mark A. Yoshimoto, Jamie L. Langlinais	2019-05-28	$54,822,000
9923468	Multiphase power conversion using skewed per-phase inductor current limits	Rajarshi Paul, Parin Patel	2018-03-20	$80,950,000
9444281	Unified high power and low power battery charger	Mark A. Yoshimoto, Jamie L. Langlinais	2016-09-13	$80,175,000
7843178	DC/DC converter startup with frequency ramping	Muthu Subramanian, Goran Perica	2010-11-30	$16,482,000
7714550	System and method for tracking a variable characteristic through a range of operation	Joseph Shannon Duncan, Eugene L. Cheung	2010-05-11	$16,485,000
7199560	Switch-mode power supply voltage regulator and methodology	Eugene L. Cheung	2007-04-03	$26,401,000
7019507	Methods and circuits for programmable current limit protection	Gregory P. Dittmer	2006-03-28	$25,364,000
6331755	Circuit for detecting near or below resonance operation of a fluorescent lamp driven by half-bridge circuit	Thomas Ribarich	2001-12-18	$38,724,000
6211623	Fully integrated ballast IC	Dana Wilhelm, Thomas Ribarich	2001-04-03	$11,733,000
6005354	Ballast IC with shut-down function	—	1999-12-21	$15,991,000
5973943	Non zero-voltage switching protection circuit	Thomas Ribarich	1999-10-26	$5,899,000
5812010	Soft-switching driver output stage and method	—	1998-09-22	$3,655,000
5747943	MOS gate driver integrated circuit for ballast circuits	Peter Wood	1998-05-05	$7,141,000
5550436	MOS gate driver integrated circuit for ballast circuits	—	1996-08-27	$4,842,000
5550701	Power MOSFET with overcurrent and over-temperature protection and control circuit decoupled from body diode	Bruno Nadd	1996-08-27	$4,842,000
5543994	MOSFET driver with fault reporting outputs	Dana Wilhelm	1996-08-06	$14,680,000

Talbott M. Houk — 18 Patents

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