Inventor · Eden Prairie, MN, US

James D. Seefeldt

31Patents
12h-index
24Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 27, 1994 → Nov 13, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6172378A Integrated circuit varactor having a wide capacitance range Electricity 99 Expired
US6310387A Integrated circuit inductor with high self-resonance frequency Electricity 45 Expired
US5795069A Temperature sensor and method Physics 45 Expired
US5736430A Transducer having a silicon diaphragm and method for forming same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Expired
US6627954B1 Integrated circuit capacitor in a silicon-on-insulator integrated circuit Electricity 24 Expired
US6021675A Resonating structure and method for forming the resonating structure Physics 23 Expired
US7839195B1 Automatic control of clock duty cycle Electricity 23 Active
US7323946B2 Lock detect circuit for a phase locked loop Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Expired
US5834333A Transducer having a resonating silicon beam and method for forming same Physics 23 Expired
US6118164A Transducer having a resonating silicon beam and method for forming same Physics 20 Expired
US5744950A Apparatus for detecting the speed of a rotating element including signal conditioning to provide a fifty percent duty cycle Physics 20 Expired
US6355537B1 Method of providing radio frequency isolation of device mesas using guard ring regions within an integrated circuit device Electricity 17 Expired
US5796291A Method and apparatus for compensating for temperature fluctuations in the input to a gain circuit Electricity 9 Expired
US5708190A Gas concentration sensor Physics 7 Expired
US8975952B2 CMOS logic circuit using passive internal body tie bias Electricity 6 Active
US7342465B2 Voltage-controlled oscillator with stable gain over a wide frequency range Electricity 6 Expired
US7423492B2 Circuit to reset a phase locked loop after a loss of lock Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired
US5695285A Apparatus for containing a temperature sensing device Physics 5 Expired
US6220101A Apparatus for measuring multiple pressures Physics 5 Expired
US7718963B2 Passive solid state ionizing radiation sensor Electricity 5 Active
US8390352B2 Apparatus and method for compensating for process, voltage, and temperature variation of the time delay of a digital delay line Electricity 5 Active
US5753819A Method and apparatus for sealing a pressure transducer within a housing Physics 5 Expired
US7851860B2 Techniques to reduce substrate cross talk on mixed signal and RF circuit design Electricity 4 Expired
US8355478B1 Circuit for aligning clock to parallel data Electricity 3 Active
US5574361A Switched reluctance angular velocity sensor Physics 3 Expired

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