Inventor · Plano, TX, US

James R. Hellums

22Patents
10h-index
21Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 7, 1980 → Jan 21, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4797631A Folded cascode amplifier with rail-to-rail common-mode range Electricity 60 Expired
US6384664B1 Differential voltage sense circuit to detect the state of a CMOS process compatible fuses at low power supply voltages Physics 40 Expired
US6741129B1 Differential amplifier slew rate boosting scheme Electricity 37 Expired
US4890052A Temperature constant current reference Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Expired
US4359680A Reference voltage circuit Physics 15 Expired
US5999043A On-chip high resistance device for passive low pass filters with programmable poles Electricity 15 Expired
US5525927A MOS current mirror capable of operating in the triode region with minimum output drain-to source voltage Physics 14 Expired
US5362988A Local mid-rail generator circuit Physics 14 Expired
US6671663B1 Time domain noise analysis Physics 13 Expired
US6316993A Analog circuitry for start-up glitch suppression Electricity 12 Expired
US6346851B1 Low-pass filter with improved high frequency attenuation Electricity 9 Expired
US6413824B1 METHOD TO PARTIALLY OR COMPLETELY SUPPRESS POCKET IMPLANT IN SELECTIVE CIRCUIT ELEMENTS WITH NO ADDITIONAL MASK IN A CMOS FLOW WHERE SEPARATE MASKING STEPS ARE USED FOR THE DRAIN EXTENSION IMPLANTS FOR THE LOW VOLTAGE AND HIGH VOLTAGE TRANSISTORS Electricity 8 Expired
US6157241A Fuse trim circuit that does not prestress fuses Physics 7 Expired
US5302888A CMOS integrated mid-supply voltage generator Physics 7 Expired
US5136255A Amplifier circuit Electricity 6 Expired
US7915882B2 Start-up circuit and method for a self-biased zero-temperature-coefficient current reference Physics 6 Active
US6208277A High speed analog to digital conversion circuitry using quantum mechanical tunneling structures Performing Operations; Transporting 5 Expired
US5808484A Method and apparatus for detecting changes in a clock signal to static states Electricity 3 Expired
US6962369B2 Spare wheel assembly Performing Operations; Transporting 2 Expired
US5589784A Method and apparatus for detecting changes in a clock signal to static states Electricity 2 Expired
US4330769A Single electrode sense circuit for charge-coupled transversal filters Electricity 2 Expired
US7777569B2 Anti-pop method and apparatus for class AB amplifiers Electricity 0 Active

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