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Newton E. Ball — 21 Patents

MIMicrosemi: 12 patents #4 of 169Top 3%
IEIota Engineering: 2 patents #2 of 6Top 35%
MGMicrosemi Corp.—Analog Mixed Signal Group: 1 patents #23 of 41Top 60%
San Diego, CA: #2,009 of 23,606 inventorsTop 9%
California: #27,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Newton E. Ball has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsemi. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in April 2009. Newton E. Ball ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Newton E. Ball in San Diego, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7521630 Parallel and virtual parallel interconnection of solar cells in solar panels 2009-04-21
7449841 Charge limited high voltage switch circuits 2008-11-11 $6,846,000
7391242 Sawtooth waveform generator 2008-06-24
7388413 Ramp generator with fast reset 2008-06-17 $17,168,000
7279851 Systems and methods for fault protection in a balancing transformer 2007-10-09 $8,935,000
7265499 Current-mode direct-drive inverter 2007-09-04 $19,272,000
7250726 Systems and methods for a transformer configuration with a tree topology for current balancing in gas discharge lamps 2007-07-31 $8,755,000
7239087 Method and apparatus to drive LED arrays using time sharing technique 2007-07-03 $19,746,000
7187140 Lamp current control using profile synthesizer 2007-03-06 $4,546,000
7183724 Inverter with two switching stages for driving lamp 2007-02-27 $7,309,000
7173382 Nested balancing topology for balancing current among multiple lamps 2007-02-06 $4,298,000
7173380 Push-pull driver with null-short feature 2007-02-06 $4,298,000
7173379 Incremental distributed driver 2007-02-06 $4,298,000
7141933 Systems and methods for a transformer configuration for driving multiple gas discharge tubes in parallel 2006-11-28 $13,615,000
7061183 Zigzag topology for balancing current among paralleled gas discharge lamps 2006-06-13 $10,691,000
6930582 Self lead foil winding configuration for transformers and inductors 2005-08-16
6642830 Self lead foil winding configuration for transformers and inductors 2003-11-04
5109185 Phase-controlled reversible power converter presenting a controllable counter emf to a source of an impressed voltage 1992-04-28
5029064 Phase-controlled reversible power conversion with equal duty cycle substantially constant amplitude square wave excitation of the power transformer 1991-07-02
4629964 Battery power source 1986-12-16
4595872 Computer-attached uninterruptable DC power supply 1986-06-17