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Karl Edwards — 14 Patents

LHLinear Technology Holding: 10 patents #22 of 326Top 7%
LLLucas Industries Public Limited: 1 patents #218 of 571Top 40%
NSNational Semiconductor: 1 patents #1,247 of 2,238Top 60%
BPBae Systems Plc: 1 patents #399 of 927Top 45%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Karl Edwards has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Linear Technology Holding. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in July 2014. Karl Edwards ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Karl Edwards in Birmingham, CA, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2003.peak 31991: 1 patents19911996: 1 patents19962002: 1 patents20022003: 3 patents20032004: 1 patents20042005: 2 patents20052007: 3 patents20072011: 1 patents20112014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8779776 Power supply monitoring system 2014-07-15
8079465 Safety packaging David Jones 2011-12-20
7176736 High-speed, current driven latch 2007-02-13 $46,503,000
7173474 Load-generated drive, no quiescent current, techniques and circuits for high speed switching of transistors 2007-02-06 $24,009,000
7173465 High-speed, current-driven latch 2007-02-06 $24,009,000
6861892 Load-generated drive, substantially no quiescent current, techniques and circuits for high speed switching of transistors 2005-03-01 $64,882,000
6847245 High-speed, current driven latch 2005-01-25 $67,651,000
6750690 High-speed, current driven latch 2004-06-15 $71,942,000
6611131 Cancellation of slope compensation effect on current limit 2003-08-26 $131,245,000
6535042 High-speed, current-driven latch 2003-03-18 $63,013,000
6531909 Load-generated drive, substantially no quiescent current, techniques and circuits for high speed switching of transistors 2003-03-11 $119,415,000
6498466 Cancellation of slope compensation effect on current limit 2002-12-24 $104,295,000
5530339 Output current driver with an adaptive current source Calum MacRae 1996-06-25 $8,386,000
5012207 Variable reluctance transducer processing circuit for providing an output unaffected by low frequency components 1991-04-30