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Milton E. Wilcox — 25 Patents

LHLinear Technology Holding: 12 patents #16 of 326Top 5%
NSNational Semiconductor: 12 patents #138 of 2,238Top 7%
San Jose, CA: #2,531 of 32,062 inventorsTop 8%
California: #22,079 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Milton E. Wilcox has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at Linear Technology Holding. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in June 2003. Milton E. Wilcox ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Milton E. Wilcox in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2003Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1998.peak 41980: 1 patents19801981: 1 patents1982: 2 patents19821985: 1 patents1986: 1 patents19861987: 1 patents1988: 1 patents19881991: 3 patents1992: 1 patents19921994: 1 patents1995: 1 patents19951996: 1 patents1998: 4 patents19981999: 2 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2003

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6580258 Control circuit and method for maintaining high efficiency over broad current ranges in a switching regulator circuit Randy G. Flatness 2003-06-17 $126,314,000
6366066 Circuit and method for reducing quiescent current in a switching regulator 2002-04-02
6304066 Control circuit and method for maintaining high efficiency over broad current ranges in a switching regular circuit Randy G. Flatness 2001-10-16 $209,191,000
6127815 Circuit and method for reducing quiescent current in a switching regulator 2000-10-03 $101,475,000
5994885 Control circuit and method for maintaining high efficiency over broad current ranges in a switching regulator circuit Randy G. Flatness 1999-11-30 $85,639,000
5929620 Switching regulators having a synchronizable oscillator frequency with constant ramp amplitude Robert C. Dobkin 1999-07-27 $138,334,000
5847554 Synchronous switching regulator which employs switch voltage-drop for current sensing Christopher Umminger 1998-12-08 $75,369,000
5731694 Control circuit and method for maintaining high efficiency over broard current ranges in a switching regulator circuit Randy G. Flatness 1998-03-24 $28,444,000
5731731 High efficiency switching regulator with adaptive drive output circuit Robert C. Dobkin, Carl T. Nelson 1998-03-24 $28,444,000
5705919 Low drop-out switching regulator architecture 1998-01-06 $48,398,000
5481178 Control circuit and method for maintaining high efficiency over broad current ranges in a switching regulator circuit Randy G. Flatness 1996-01-02 $22,263,000
5408150 Circuit for driving two power mosfets in a half-bridge configuration 1995-04-18 $10,276,000
5365118 Circuit for driving two power mosfets in a half-bridge configuration 1994-11-15 $17,716,000
5099381 Enable circuit with embedded thermal turn-off 1992-03-24 $4,445,000
5066871 Maximum swing cascode circuit for a bipolar charge pump 1991-11-19 $3,679,000
5023474 Adaptive gate charge circuit for power FETs 1991-06-11 $4,336,000
5017816 Adaptive gate discharge circuit for power FETS 1991-05-21 $2,245,000
4775843 Wideband post amplifier for product detector 1988-10-04 $10,577,000
4642489 Sampled data amplitude linear phase detector 1987-02-10 $3,567,000
4590444 Voltage controlled RC oscillator circuit 1986-05-20 $5,311,000
4520324 MOS Gain controlled amplifier William B. Jett, Jr. 1985-05-28 $9,619,000
4346351 High frequency voltage-controlled oscillator 1982-08-24 $1,595,000
4327333 AGC Current source 1982-04-27 $2,636,000
4275419 Video amplifier with noise inversion 1981-06-23 $6,352,000
4230953 Non-linear control circuit 1980-10-28 $8,305,000