Inventor · Corvallis, OR, US

Ray A. Mentzer

22Patents
11h-index
15Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 8, 1988 → Mar 24, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5436908A Common edge output skew detection circuit Physics 61 Expired
US5304952A Lock sensor circuit and method for phase lock loop circuits Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 59 Expired
US5349311A Current starved inverter voltage controlled oscillator Electricity 56 Expired
US5382921A Automatic selection of an operating frequency in a low-gain broadband phase lock loop system Electricity 47 Expired
US5459412A BiCMOS circuit for translation of ECL logic levels to MOS logic levels Electricity 45 Expired
US7724284B2 Multi-camera system and method having a common processing block Electricity 42 Active
US5821824A Multistage voltage converter for voltage controlled oscillator Electricity 20 Expired
US5065224A Low noise integrated circuit and leadframe Electricity 18 Expired
US7539880B2 System and method for managing power consumption Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Active
US5508702A BiCOMS digital-to-analog conversion Electricity 14 Expired
US5173621A Transceiver with isolated power rails for ground bounce reduction Electricity 13 Expired
US7639291B2 Dark current/channel difference compensated image sensor Electricity 10 Active
US5535086A ESD protection circuit and method for BICMOS devices Electricity 10 Expired
US6734897B1 Digital imaging circuit and method Electricity 8 Expired
US7492394B2 System and method for correcting erroneous image signals from defective photosensitive pixels during analog-to-digital conversion Electricity 6 Expired
US7081922B2 Apparatus and method for obtaining average scene intensity information from a photo detector array Electricity 5 Expired
US7545418B2 Image sensor device having improved noise suppression capability and a method for supressing noise in an image sensor device Electricity 3 Active
US6784930B1 Active pixel sensor with enhanced reset Electricity 2 Expired
US7800676B2 CMOS image sensor with active reset and 4-transistor pixels Electricity 2 Active
US9854190B2 Imaging systems and methods for transient signal integrity verification Electricity 1 Active
US7687836B2 Capacitance noise shielding plane for imager sensor devices Electricity 0 Active
US8525284B2 System for reducing sensor area in a back side illuminated CMOS active pixel sensor Electricity 0 Active

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