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MSTAR SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.

879Patents
841Active
879Granted
62Portfolio score

Filing activity: May 2, 2002 → Jul 5, 2018 · 249 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8085013B2 DC power converter and mode-switching method Electricity 1,288 Active
US7768510B2 Measurement device for measuring gray-to-gray response time Physics 145 Active
US6841981B2 Radio frequency data communication device in CMOS process Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 52 Expired
US8270456B2 Digital radio systems Electricity 35 Active
US9473868B2 Microphone adjustment based on distance between user and microphone Electricity 32 Active
US8698792B2 Low-power display control method and associated display controller Electricity 29 Active
US7310397B2 Data recovery circuit, phase detection circuit and method for detecting and correcting phase conditions Electricity 27 Expired
US8041083B2 Fingerprint sensing circuit Physics 22 Active
US8179174B2 Fast phase locking system for automatically calibrated fractional-N PLL Electricity 21 Active
US8294307B2 Apparatus and method for voltage controlling used in a portable electronic device Electricity 20 Active
US7362252B1 Bandwidth tunable sigma-delta ADC modulator Electricity 19 Active
US8752060B2 Multi-CPU domain mobile electronic device and operation method thereof Physics 18 Active
US10116952B2 Bitstream decoding method and bitstream decoding circuit Electricity 17 Active
US7929910B2 Portable electronic apparatus with near field communication (NFC) application and method of operating the portable electronic apparatus Electricity 17 Active
US7825892B2 LCD backlight driving signal generator Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Active
US8896420B2 RFID tag, operating method of RFID tag and operating method between RFID tag and RFID reader Electricity 16 Active
US7161602B2 Pixel interpolation method and related pixel interpolation system Electricity 14 Expired
US8018344B2 Wireless communication apparatus and method thereof Electricity 13 Active
US8259818B2 Deblocking apparatus and associated method Electricity 13 Active
US8269643B2 Positioning/navigation system using identification tag and position/navigation method Physics 13 Active
US7973587B2 Transconductor having high linearity and programmable gain and mixer using the same Electricity 13 Active
US8929945B1 Transceivers with a transformer supporting multiband operation Electricity 13 Active
US7436356B2 Method of cross-correlation and continuous wave interference suppression for GPS signal and associated GPS receiver Physics 11 Active
US7026878B2 Flexible synthesizer for multiplying a clock by a rational number Electricity 11 Expired
US6768385B2 Intelligent phase lock loop Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.