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Bruce L. Inn — 17 Patents

MIMicrel: 10 patents #12 of 187Top 7%
NSNational Semiconductor: 4 patents #498 of 2,238Top 25%
SSScenix Semiconductor: 2 patents #2 of 6Top 35%
IAIntersil Americas: 1 patents #345 of 468Top 75%
Mountain View, CA: #1,283 of 11,022 inventorsTop 15%
California: #35,467 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Bruce L. Inn has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micrel. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in July 2010. Bruce L. Inn ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Bruce L. Inn in Mountain View, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7764053 System and method to calculate initial duty cycle Gustavo Mehas, Wei Chen 2010-07-27 $2,041,000
7215108 Method for starting a voltage-mode switching power supply into a biased load Ramesh Selvaraj 2007-05-08 $8,133,000
7148670 Dual mode buck regulator with improved transition between LDO and PWM operation Ioan Stoichita 2006-12-12 $9,235,000
7012343 Resistance multiplier circuit and compact gain attenuator Matthew Weng 2006-03-14 $3,293,000
7002263 Elimination of recirculation current loss in load-shared switching mode power supplies Ramesh Selvaraj 2006-02-21 $3,294,000
6972974 Compensator to achieve constant bandwidth in a switching regulator Chuck Vinn 2005-12-06 $8,145,000
6853174 Selective high-side and low-side current sensing in switching power supplies 2005-02-08 $8,204,000
6593621 LDMOS field effect transistor with improved ruggedness in narrow curved areas Hideaki Tsuchiko, Marty Garnett, Phillip Fischer 2003-07-15 $20,521,000
6396311 Transconductance amplifier circuit 2002-05-28 $16,143,000
6304108 Reference-corrected ratiometric MOS current sensing circuit 2001-10-16 $16,279,000
6275395 Accelerated turn-off of MOS transistors by bootstrapping Alland Chee 2001-08-14 $68,003,000
5943635 System and method for programmable brown-out detection and differentiation 1999-08-24
5917319 Methods and apparatus for sensing currents Richard Frank, Tamas S. Szepesi 1999-06-29 $23,202,000
5889441 Temperature and voltage independent on-chip oscillator system and method 1999-03-30
5646520 Methods and apparatus for sensing currents Richard Frank, Tamas S. Szepesi 1997-07-08 $8,225,000
5455186 Method for manufacturing an offset lattice bipolar transistor 1995-10-03 $2,924,000
5455449 Offset lattice bipolar transistor architecture 1995-10-03 $2,924,000