Inventor · Burlington, MA, US

A. Paul Brokaw

66Patents
23h-index
30Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 25, 1987 → Nov 22, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5339018A Integrated circuit monitor for storage battery voltage and temperature Electricity 193 Expired
US5345824A Monolithic accelerometer Physics 150 Expired
US5540095A Monolithic accelerometer Physics 108 Expired
US5417111A Monolithic chip containing integrated circuitry and suspended microstructure Physics 81 Expired
US6064199A Magnetic field change detection circuitry having threshold establishing circuitry Physics 63 Expired
US5631598A Frequency compensation for a low drop-out regulator Physics 61 Expired
US5847280A Monolithic micromechanical apparatus with suspended microstructure Physics 60 Expired
US6040732A Switched-transconductance circuit within integrated T-switches Electricity 58 Expired
US4808908A Curvature correction of bipolar bandgap references Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 51 Expired
US5982201A Low voltage current mirror and CTAT current source and method Physics 46 Expired
US6275034A Micromachined semiconductor magnetic sensor Physics 43 Expired
US6192757A Monolithic micromechanical apparatus with suspended microstructure Physics 41 Expired
US6956727B1 High side current monitor with extended voltage range Physics 35 Expired
US6009753A Monolithic micromechanical apparatus with suspended microstructure Physics 29 Expired
US6225857A Non-inverting driver circuit for low-dropout voltage regulator Physics 28 Expired
US5327030A Decoder and monolithic integrated circuit incorporating same Physics 28 Expired
US5347224A Current monitoring circuit having controlled sensitivity to temperature and supply voltage Physics 26 Expired
US5095274A Temperature-compensated apparatus for monitoring current having controlled sensitivity to supply voltage Physics 25 Expired
US5929617A LDO regulator dropout drive reduction circuit and method Physics 25 Expired
US5933045A Ratio correction circuit and method for comparison of proportional to absolute temperature signals to bandgap-based signals Physics 25 Expired
US5394078A Two terminal temperature transducer having circuitry which controls the entire operating current to be linearly proportional with temperature Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Expired
US6072676A Protection circuit for an excitation current source Electricity 24 Expired
US4904921A Monolithic interface circuit for linear variable differential transformers Physics 23 Expired
US6002293A High transconductance voltage reference cell Physics 22 Expired
US7112948B2 Voltage source circuit with selectable temperature independent and temperature dependent voltage outputs Physics 22 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.