Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

James C. Moyer

36Patents
12h-index
24Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 20, 1993 → Dec 2, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6114814A Apparatus for controlling a discharge lamp in a backlighted display Electricity 132 Expired
US5447876A Method of making a diamond shaped gate mesh for cellular MOS transistor array Electricity 107 Expired
US6316881A Method and apparatus for controlling a discharge lamp in a backlighted display Electricity 74 Expired
US5355008A Diamond shaped gate mesh for cellular MOS transistor array Electricity 71 Expired
US5517046A High voltage lateral DMOS device with enhanced drift region Electricity 71 Expired
US6633138B2 Method and apparatus for controlling a discharge lamp in a backlighted display Electricity 65 Expired
US5430403A Field effect transistor with switchable body to source connection Electricity 34 Expired
US5374844A Bipolar transistor structure using ballast resistor Electricity 33 Expired
US8410716B2 Control of multi-string LED array Electricity 24 Active
US6900600B2 Method for starting a discharge lamp using high energy initial pulse Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US5737170A Thermal shutdown circuit using a pair of scaled transistors Electricity 16 Expired
US5650973A PCMCIA power multiplexer integrated circuit with programmable decode Physics 12 Expired
US7355354B2 Method for starting a discharge lamp using high energy initial pulse Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US8054655B2 Tail current control of isolated converter and apparatus thereof Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US6919694B2 Fixed operating frequency inverter for cold cathode fluorescent lamp having strike frequency adjusted by voltage to current phase relationship Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US6683422B1 Full wave sense amplifier and discharge lamp inverter incorporating the same Electricity 6 Expired
US7443107B2 Method and apparatus for controlling a discharge lamp in a backlighted display Electricity 6 Active
US7265497B2 Methods and protection schemes for driving discharge lamps in large panel applications Electricity 6 Expired
US8766605B2 Bridgeless PFC converter and the method thereof Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US7164240B2 Method and apparatus for driving an external electrode fluorescent lamp Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired
US7804254B2 Method and circuit for short-circuit and over-current protection in a discharge lamp system Electricity 4 Active
US7417503B2 Method for high efficiency audio amplifier Electricity 3 Expired
US7894174B2 Method and apparatus for fault detection scheme for cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) integrated circuits Electricity 3 Active
US5617017A Voltage regulator having MOS pull-off transistor for a bipolar pass transistor Physics 2 Expired
US7511572B2 High-impedance level-shifting amplifier capable of handling input signals with a voltage magnitude that exceeds a supply voltage Electricity 2 Active

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