John S. Prentice
35Patents
13h-index
13Co-inventors
78Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 25, 1981 → Sep 14, 2020
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5504449A | Power driver circuit | Electricity | 172 | Expired |
| US6560448B1 | DC compensation system for a wireless communication device configured in a zero intermediate frequency architecture | Electricity | 106 | Expired |
| US6172556A | Feedback-controlled low voltage current sink/source | Physics | 80 | Expired |
| US6735422B1 | Calibrated DC compensation system for a wireless communication device configured in a zero intermediate frequency architecture | Electricity | 76 | Expired |
| US6763228B2 | Precision automatic gain control circuit | Electricity | 61 | Expired |
| US6674998B2 | System and method for detecting and correcting phase error between differential signals | Electricity | 32 | Expired |
| US4590664A | Method of fabricating low noise reference diodes and transistors | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Expired |
| US6538507B2 | Automatic gain control circuit with high linearity and monotonically correlated offset voltage | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US5357089A | Circuit and method for extending the safe operating area of a BJT | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US6426677B1 | Linearization bias circuit for BJT amplifiers | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US4472648A | Transistor circuit for reducing gate leakage current in a JFET | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US6891440B2 | Quadrature oscillator with phase error correction | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US5896053A | Single ended to differential converter and 50% duty cycle signal generator and method | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US4675798A | Direct coupled switching power supply with GTO SCR switching element | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US5248932A | Current mirror circuit with cascoded bipolar transistors | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US5606288A | Differential transimpedance amplifier | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US4464631A | Circuit for trimming FET differential pair offset voltage without increasing the offset voltage temperature coefficient | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US7057469B2 | High speed differential voltage controlled oscillator | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US5812029A | Gain control circuit and method | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US6538513B2 | Common mode output current control circuit and method | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US5767757A | Electrically variable R/C network and method | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US6344762B1 | Bias circuit for a low voltage differential circuit | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US6570427B2 | Variable transconductance amplifier | Electricity | 5 | Expired |
| US6600372B2 | Attenuator control circuit | Electricity | 5 | Expired |
| US5086242A | Fast turn-off of thyristor structure | Electricity | 4 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.