Inventor · Phoenix, AZ, US

Alexander Wayne Hietala

118Patents
22h-index
58Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 18, 1982 → Jan 13, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9711999B2 Antenna array calibration for wireless charging Electricity 188 Active
US5430416A Power amplifier having nested amplitude modulation controller and phase modulation controller Electricity 163 Expired
US5055802A Multiaccumulator sigma-delta fractional-N synthesis Electricity 103 Expired
US5278994A Power amplifier saturation detection and correction method and apparatus Electricity 92 Expired
US5424689A Filtering device for use in a phase locked loop controller Electricity 79 Expired
US5111162A Digital frequency synthesizer having AFC and modulation applied to frequency divider Electricity 61 Expired
US8774065B2 Radio front end and power management architecture for LTE-advanced Electricity 56 Active
US6834084B2 Direct digital polar modulator Electricity 54 Expired
US5150075A Power amplifier ramp up method and apparatus Electricity 53 Expired
US5055800A Fractional N/M synthesis Electricity 48 Expired
US9019011B2 Method of power amplifier calibration for an envelope tracking system Electricity 47 Active
US6816718B2 DC offset correction using dummy amplifier Electricity 40 Expired
US5093632A Latched accumulator fractional N synthesis with residual error reduction Electricity 35 Expired
US5495206A Fractional N frequency synthesis with residual error correction and method thereof Electricity 34 Expired
US5070310A Multiple latched accumulator fractional N synthesis Electricity 34 Expired
US5166642A Multiple accumulator fractional N synthesis with series recombination Electricity 28 Expired
US9515621B2 Multimode RF amplifier system Electricity 28 Active
US9519612B2 Serial bus buffer with noise reduction Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Active
US6571091B1 Power control method and apparatus suitable for use in a radio communication device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Expired
US5867063A Gain distribution circuit Electricity 24 Expired
US5448770A Temperature-coefficient controlled radio frequency signal detecting circuitry Electricity 23 Expired
US5140286A Oscillator with bias and buffer circuits formed in a die mounted with distributed elements on ceramic substrate Electricity 22 Expired
US6480555B1 Method and apparatus for extended range frequency correction burst detection Electricity 21 Expired
US7962108B1 Adaptive AM/PM compensation Electricity 20 Active
US8200181B1 Noise reduction in a dual radio frequency receiver Electricity 19 Active

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