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William E. Edwards — 49 Patents

NUNxp Usa: 18 patents #58 of 2,066Top 3%
FSFreeescale Semiconductor: 17 patents #144 of 3,767Top 4%
SSStmicroelectronics Sa: 10 patents #598 of 1,676Top 40%
Motorola: 2 patents #5,506 of 14,142Top 40%
WEWestinghouse Electric: 1 patents #2,910 of 5,212Top 60%
Ann Arbor, MI: #115 of 6,071 inventorsTop 2%
Michigan: #966 of 86,293 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #55,592 of 4,157,543Top 2%
49 Patents All Time
William E. Edwards has been granted 49 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nxp Usa. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in January 2021. William E. Edwards ranks #55,592 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.3%). Patent records list William E. Edwards in Ann Arbor, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2016.peak 91986: 1 patents19861992: 1 patents1995: 1 patents19951996: 1 patents1997: 2 patents19971998: 2 patents1999: 4 patents19992000: 2 patents2005: 1 patents20052008: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112013: 1 patents2015: 4 patents20152016: 9 patents2017: 6 patents20172018: 6 patents2019: 3 patents20192020: 2 patents2021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 49 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10892617 High speed wide dynamic range input structure John M. Pigott 2021-01-12 $30,662,000
10649033 Methods for switch health determination Anthony F. Andresen, Randall C. Gray 2020-05-12 $16,481,000
10641827 Wetting current diagnostics Randall C. Gray, Anthony F. Andresen 2020-05-05 $16,701,000
10446436 In-line protection from process induced dielectric damage Brian G. Anthony 2019-10-15 $9,723,000
10240548 Control system and method of operating a control system Mike R. Garrard, Anoop K. Aggarwal, Philip Tobin 2019-03-26 $10,868,000
10235324 Interconnect sharing with integrated control for reduced pinout Jesse Beeker 2019-03-19 $20,628,000
10101180 Variable reluctance sensor interfaces with clearing and methods of their operation Mike R. Garrard 2018-10-16 $9,974,000
10101395 Wetting current diagnostics Randall C. Gray, Anthony F. Andresen 2018-10-16 $9,974,000
9970405 Method and apparatus for determining a value of a variable parameter Michael Robert Garrard, John M. Hall 2018-05-15 $15,476,000
9909932 System and method for temperature sensing in an internal combustion engine Michael Robert Garrard 2018-03-06 $9,387,000
9897633 System and method for switch status detection Anthony F. Andresen 2018-02-20 $6,607,000
9856800 Ignition control device having an electronic fuel injection (EFI) mode and a capacitive discharge ignition (CDI) mode Michael Robert Garrard, John M. Hall 2018-01-02 $24,636,000
9835687 System and method for switch status detection Anthony F. Andresen 2017-12-05 $3,152,000
9778319 Systems and methods for switch health determination Anthony F. Andresen, Randall C. Gray 2017-10-03 $4,270,000
9778668 Sensed switch current control Anthony F. Andresen 2017-10-03 $4,270,000
9726519 Variable reluctance sensor interfaces with clearing and methods of their operation Mike R. Garrard 2017-08-08 $9,331,000
9715246 State-based undervoltage hysteresis Anthony F. Andresen 2017-07-25 $25,560,000
9601479 Protection circuit, circuit employing same, and associated method of operation John M. Pigott 2017-03-21 $13,590,000
9506979 Test mode entry interlock John M. Hall 2016-11-29
9465075 Wetting current diagnostics Anthony F. Andresen 2016-10-11
9435277 Method of calibrating a crank angle of a combustion engine Michael Robert Garrard, Alistair Robertson 2016-09-06
9397082 Multiple die lead frame packaging Gary C. Johnson 2016-07-19
9366548 Variable reluctance sensor interfaces and methods of their operation Mike R. Garrard 2016-06-14
9329237 Switch detection device and method of use Anthony F. Andresen, Randall C. Gray 2016-05-03
9322870 Wafer-level gate stress testing Randall C. Gray, Christopher B. Lesher 2016-04-26