Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Brian Sander

27Patents
8h-index
25Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 6, 1988 → Sep 14, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7623667B2 Electronic device accessory with ultrasonic tone generator Electricity 100 Active
US7869608B2 Electronic device accessory Electricity 92 Active
US6094101A Direct digital frequency synthesis enabling spur elimination Electricity 42 Expired
US7158494B2 Multi-mode communications transmitter Electricity 34 Expired
US8254592B2 Electronic device and external equipment with configurable audio path circuitry Electricity 28 Active
US6140882A Phase lock loop enabling smooth loop bandwidth switching Electricity 22 Expired
US9237401B2 Electronic devices with adjustable bias impedances and adjustable bias voltages for accessories Electricity 20 Active
US8332664B2 Systems and methods for providing device-to-device handshaking through a power supply signal Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US5047967A Digital front end for time measurement and generation of electrical signals Physics 8 Expired
US8223986B2 Electronic device and external equipment with digital noise cancellation and digital audio path Electricity 8 Active
US5151985A Disk drive controller Physics 7 Expired
US9656621B2 System and method for sensor module power management Electricity 6 Active
US4916556A Disk drive controller Physics 5 Expired
US8600080B2 Methods for communicating with electronic device accessories Electricity 4 Active
US7027545B2 Data sampler for digital frequency/phase determination Electricity 4 Expired
US8812883B2 Systems and methods for providing device-to-device handshaking through a power supply signal Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US8995689B2 Electronic device circuitry for communicating with accessories Electricity 2 Active
US8130790B2 Digital communications system with variable-bandwidth traffic channels Electricity 2 Active
US9680980B2 Electronic device accessory Electricity 1 Active
US7227919B2 Data sampler for digital frequency/phase determination Electricity 1 Expired
US9020162B2 Electronic device and external equipment with digital noise cancellation and digital audio path Electricity 1 Active
US7012984B2 PLL noise smoothing using dual-modulus interleaving Electricity 1 Expired
US8983093B2 Electronic device circuitry for communicating with accessories Electricity 1 Active
US8891790B2 Methods for using an accessory to communicate with an electronic device Electricity 1 Active
US8976976B2 Accessory adapter with user input interface Electricity 0 Active

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