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Thomas A. Schmidt — 18 Patents

TITexas Instruments: 16 patents #836 of 12,488Top 7%
KTKeysight Technologies: 1 patents #228 of 567Top 45%
U.S. Philips: 1 patents #4,149 of 8,851Top 50%
Colorado Springs, CO: #152 of 2,971 inventorsTop 6%
Colorado: #2,271 of 40,980 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Thomas A. Schmidt has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Texas Instruments. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in November 2022. Thomas A. Schmidt ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Thomas A. Schmidt in Colorado Springs, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1996.peak 41990: 1 patents19901994: 1 patents1996: 4 patents19961998: 1 patents1999: 1 patents19992002: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042006: 2 patents2007: 1 patents20072010: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112019: 1 patents2022: 2 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11502674 Optimized low Ron flatness gate driver Vikas Suma Vinay 2022-11-15 $32,519,000
11489519 Analog switch with boost current for fast turn on Sean McEnroe 2022-11-01 $44,906,000
10197600 Oscilloscope with internally generated mixed signal oscilloscope demo mode stimulus, and integrated demonstration and training signals Matthew S. Holcomb, Dennis J. Weller 2019-02-05 $26,178,000
8040652 Programmable power distribution switches with two-level current sensing H. Pooya Forghani-zadeh 2011-10-18 $7,298,000
7817393 Power distribution switch circuits with fast responses to hard short-circuits H. Pooya Forghani-zadeh 2010-10-19 $12,934,000
7236003 H-bridge circuit with shoot through current prevention during power-up Shanmuganand Chellamuthu, Brett Smith, Abidur Rahman 2007-06-26 $11,567,000
7071740 Current limiting circuit for high-speed low-side driver outputs Reed W. Adams, Suribhotla Rajasekhar 2006-07-04
7035071 Current limit with adaptive cycle skipping for switching regulators Kee Chee Tiew, Brett Smith, John C. Vogt, Abidur Rahman 2006-04-25 $12,440,000
6717530 Multiple temperature threshold sensing having a single sense element Andrew Marshall, Jingwei Xu 2004-04-06 $28,865,000
6408170 Control circuit for a microcontroller Karl-Heinz Knobl 2002-06-18
5880644 N-bit pulse width modulated signal generator Andrew Marshall 1999-03-09 $29,730,000
5812006 Optimized power output clamping structure Ross E. Teggatz, Joseph A. Devore, Kenneth G. Buss, Taylor R. Efland, Stephen C. Kwan 1998-09-22 $20,834,000
5579193 Reducing the natural current limit in a power MOS device by reducing the gate-source voltage Ross E. Teggatz, Joseph A. Devore 1996-11-26 $8,020,000
5550702 Adaptive duty-cycle limiting for overload protection of integrated circuits Roy Alan Hastings 1996-08-27 $9,483,000
5541799 Reducing the natural current limit in a power MOS device by reducing the gate-source voltage Ross E. Teggatz, Joseph A. Devore 1996-07-30 $8,297,000
5528125 Buck-boost switch mode power supply with burst topology Andrew Marshall 1996-06-18 $4,952,000
5349286 Compensation for low gain bipolar transistors in voltage and current reference circuits Andrew Marshall, Ross E. Teggatz 1994-09-20 $5,768,000
4939442 Bandgap voltage reference and method with further temperature correction Fernando D. Carvajal 1990-07-03 $2,579,000

Frequent Collaborators

Ross E. Teggatz4 shared
Andrew Marshall4 shared
Joseph A. Devore3 shared
Brett Smith2 shared
Abidur Rahman2 shared
H. Pooya Forghani-zadeh2 shared

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