Inventor · Dracut, MA, US

Paul F. Ferguson, Jr.

28Patents
16h-index
22Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 31, 1990 → Feb 12, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5495200A Double sampled biquad switched capacitor filter Electricity 125 Expired
US6917321B1 Method and apparatus for use in switched capacitor systems Electricity 81 Expired
US5311181A Sigma delta modulator Electricity 66 Expired
US6040793A Switched-capacitor sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter with input voltage overload protection Electricity 64 Expired
US5412387A Error reduction in switched capacitor digital-to-analog converter systems by balanced sampling Electricity 61 Expired
US5323158A Switched capacitor one-bit digital-to-analog converter Electricity 53 Expired
US5055843A Sigma delta modulator with distributed prefiltering and feedback Electricity 51 Expired
US5621345A In-phase and quadrature sampling circuit Electricity 50 Expired
US5789974A Calibrating the DC-offset of amplifiers Electricity 46 Expired
US5764103A Switching amplifiers into and out of circuits with reduced output noise Electricity 31 Expired
US6271784A Capacitor-based digital-to-analog converter with continuous time output Electricity 30 Expired
US7199740B1 Method and apparatus for use in switched capacitor systems Electricity 28 Expired
US5689201A Track-and-hold circuit utilizing a negative of the input signal for tracking Physics 26 Expired
US5381148A Method and apparatus for calibrating a gain control circuit Electricity 24 Expired
US6897715B2 Multimode voltage regulator Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Expired
US5331221A Gain linearity correction for MOS circuits Electricity 20 Expired
US6005431A High band width, high gain offset compensating amplifier system for a read channel Electricity 15 Expired
US5363102A Offset-insensitive switched-capacitor gain stage Electricity 15 Expired
US6624772B1 Offset calibration system Electricity 13 Expired
US6873278B1 Method and apparatus for use in switched capacitor systems Electricity 12 Expired
US8570200B2 Continuous-time oversampled converter having enhanced immunity to noise Electricity 12 Active
US5451950A Method for reducing errors in switched-capacitor digital-to-analog converter systems and apparatus therefor Electricity 8 Expired
US7259706B2 Balanced dual resistor string digital to analog converter system and method Electricity 7 Expired
US7138848B2 Switched capacitor integrator system Electricity 4 Expired
US7292832B2 Timing and frequency control method and circuit for digital wireless telephone system terminals Electricity 3 Expired

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