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Thruston Awalt — 4 Patents

MIMicrel: 4 patents #43 of 187Top 25%
Los Gatos, CA: #1,291 of 2,986 inventorsTop 45%
California: #126,026 of 386,348 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Thruston Awalt has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micrel. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in November 2009. Thruston Awalt ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Thruston Awalt in Los Gatos, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2009Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2007.peak 22007: 2 patents20072008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents2009

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7622871 Light emitting diode driver circuit with shunt switch Hardik Patel 2009-11-24 $1,620,000
7439945 Light emitting diode driver circuit with high-speed pulse width modulated current control Qi Deng 2008-10-21 $5,196,000
7245148 Power saving method in an integrated circuit programming and control circuit Peter Chambers 2007-07-17 $8,853,000
7170732 Surge delay for current limiter David C. Andersen 2007-01-30 $2,663,000