Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Donald A. Kerth

74Patents
23h-index
40Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 11, 1985 → May 21, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5477481A Switched-capacitor integrator with chopper stabilization performed at the sampling rate Electricity 111 Expired
US8467483B2 Radio-frequency apparatus and associated methods Electricity 96 Active
US5012244A Delta-sigma modulator with oscillation detect and reset circuit Electricity 94 Expired
US7092675B2 Apparatus and methods for generating radio frequencies in communication circuitry using multiple control signals Electricity 74 Expired
US5212659A Low precision finite impulse response filter for digital interpolation Electricity 74 Expired
US5583501A Digital-to-analog converter with digital linearity correction Electricity 67 Expired
US5644308A Algorithmic analog-to-digital converter having redundancy and digital calibration Electricity 60 Expired
US6148048A Receive path implementation for an intermediate frequency transceiver Electricity 59 Expired
US5039989A Delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter with chopper stabilization at the sampling frequency Electricity 57 Expired
US5079550A Combining continuous time and discrete time signal processing in a delta-sigma modulator Electricity 50 Expired
US7280001B2 Capacitor array segmentation Electricity 45 Expired
US7333831B2 Interchangeable receive inputs for band and system swappability in communication systems and related methods Electricity 35 Expired
US6804497B2 Partitioned radio-frequency apparatus and associated methods Electricity 34 Expired
US5644257A Sampling circuit charge management Electricity 32 Expired
US5376936A One-bit switched-capacitor D/A circuit with continuous time linearity Electricity 32 Expired
US5717321A Drive current calibration for an analog resistive touch screen Physics 31 Expired
US5061925A Phase equalization system for a digital-to-analog converter utilizing separate digital and analog sections Electricity 31 Expired
US4588941A Cascode CMOS bandgap reference Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Expired
US6650264B1 Quadrature sampling architecture and method for analog-to-digital converters Electricity 30 Expired
US5172115A Ratiometric A/D converter with non-rationometric error offset Electricity 28 Expired
US6226506A Method and apparatus for eliminating floating voltage nodes within a discreetly variable capacitance used for synthesizing high-frequency signals for wireless communications Electricity 26 Expired
US7221921B2 Partitioning of radio-frequency apparatus Electricity 24 Expired
US5268651A Low drift resistor structure Electricity 23 Expired
US7689190B2 Controlling the frequency of an oscillator Electricity 22 Active
US6311050A Single integrated circuit phase locked loop for synthesizing high-frequency signals for wireless communications and method for operating same Electricity 21 Expired

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