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William E. Main — 27 Patents

Motorola: 25 patents #277 of 14,142Top 2%
FSFreeescale Semiconductor: 2 patents #1,335 of 3,767Top 40%
Mesa, AZ: #72 of 2,463 inventorsTop 3%
Arizona: #1,133 of 32,909 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
William E. Main has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Motorola. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in November 2005. William E. Main ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list William E. Main in Mesa, AZ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2005Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1990.peak 41981: 1 patents19811982: 1 patents1984: 1 patents19841986: 1 patents1987: 1 patents19871989: 2 patents1990: 4 patents19901995: 1 patents1997: 4 patents19971998: 3 patents1999: 1 patents19992001: 3 patents2002: 2 patents20022004: 1 patents2005: 1 patents2005

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6965653 Circuit and method for processing an automatic frequency control signal Danielle L. Coffing, Klaas Wortel 2005-11-15
6834086 Demodulator and method for second harmonic cancellation Danielle L. Coffing 2004-12-21
6407615 Temperature compensation circuit and method of compensating Danielle L. Coffing 2002-06-18 $25,548,000
6369647 Demodulator circuit and method of tuning Danielle L. Coffing, Klaas Wortel 2002-04-09 $26,952,000
6265917 Circuit and method for altering the frequency of a signal Jeffrey C. Durec 2001-07-24 $60,515,000
6249170 Logarithmic gain control circuit and method Danielle L. Coffing, Jeffrey C. Durec 2001-06-19 $55,603,000
6208205 Amplifier circuit and method for reducing noise therein Danielle L. Coffing 2001-03-27 $43,850,000
5886547 Circuit and method of controlling mixer linearity Jeffrey C. Durec 1999-03-23 $12,098,000
5754038 Method and circuit for current regulation Jeffrey C. Durec 1998-05-19 $8,064,000
5751192 Integrated circuit and method for generating a transimpedance function 1998-05-12 $5,446,000
5729176 Linear differential gain stage Jeffrey C. Durec 1998-03-17 $8,068,000
5703478 Current mirror circuit 1997-12-30 $8,501,000
5650749 FM demodulator using injection locked oscillator having tuning feedback and linearizing feedback 1997-07-22 $23,856,000
5617056 Base current compensation circuit David K. Lovelace, Jesus S. Pena-Finol 1997-04-01 $16,323,000
5592076 Base current supply circuit for multiple current sources Jeffrey C. Durec 1997-01-07 $20,208,000
5424682 Variable gain amplifier circuit Michael L. Gomez, Nicholas Weiner 1995-06-13 $17,605,000
4977381 Differential relaxation oscillator 1990-12-11 $3,395,000
4958122 Current source regulator 1990-09-18 $16,568,000
4928068 FM demodulator 1990-05-22 $5,789,000
4926132 FM detector with reduced distortion 1990-05-15 $3,911,000
4831337 Wideband amplifier 1989-05-16 $3,468,000
4808907 Current regulator and method 1989-02-28 $3,446,000
4709171 Current limiter and method for limiting current 1987-11-24 $4,839,000
4567441 Circuit and method for linearizing the output signal of an FM detector 1986-01-28 $5,835,000
4442549 Meter drive circuit 1984-04-10 $5,107,000