Inventor · Carlsbad, CA, US

Don C. Devendorf

32Patents
14h-index
36Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 11, 1974 → May 30, 2010

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5251218A Efficient digital frequency division multiplexed signal receiver Electricity 137 Expired
US5058107A Efficient digital frequency division multiplexed signal receiver Electricity 98 Expired
US4705917A Microelectronic package Electricity 80 Expired
US6118811A Self-calibrating, self-correcting transceivers and methods Electricity 52 Expired
US5859559A Mixer structures with enhanced conversion gain and reduced spurious signals Electricity 47 Expired
US5581213A Variable gain amplifier circuit Electricity 38 Expired
US6040731A Differential pair gain control stage Electricity 33 Expired
US4237387A High speed latching comparator Electricity 28 Expired
US6693980B1 Wideband fast-hopping receiver front-end and mixing method Electricity 22 Expired
US4229729A Analog to digital converter utilizing a quantizer network Electricity 20 Expired
US7606324B2 Digital pre-distortion technique using non-linear filters Electricity 18 Active
US6931083B1 Low noise, low distortion, muxable Gilbert mixer signal processing system and method with AGC functionality Electricity 15 Expired
US5859558A Low voltage analog front end Electricity 15 Expired
US6580383B1 High resolution ADC based on an oversampled subranging ADC Electricity 14 Expired
US5859568A Temperature compensated amplifier Electricity 12 Expired
US5311190A Transmit and receive antenna element with feedback Electricity 12 Expired
US7154421B2 DNL/INL trim techniques for comparator based analog to digital converters Electricity 10 Expired
US6683904B2 RF transceiver with low power chirp acquisition mode Electricity 9 Expired
US3955099A Diode controlled idle current injection Electricity 7 Expired
US7755429B2 System and method for dynamic drain voltage adjustment to control linearity, output power, and efficiency in RF power amplifiers Electricity 7 Active
US7907014B2 System and method for dynamic drain voltage adjustment to control linearity, output power, and efficiency in RF power amplifiers Electricity 7 Active
US6768442B2 Advanced digital antenna module Electricity 6 Expired
US7606322B2 Digital pre-distortion technique using nonlinear filters Electricity 6 Active
US7848451B2 Digital pre-distortion technique using nonlinear filters Electricity 5 Active
US7088148B2 Sample and hold circuit and bootstrapping circuits therefor Physics 5 Expired

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