Inventor · Pieve Emanuele, IT

Roberto Gariboldi

29Patents
13h-index
19Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 26, 1986 → May 16, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6518830B2 High efficiency electronic circuit for generating and regulating a supply voltage Electricity 46 Expired
US5945819A Voltage regulator with fast response Physics 39 Expired
US5874850A Mos voltage elevator of the charge pump type Electricity 36 Expired
US5747978A Circuit for generating a reference voltage and detecting an under voltage of a supply and corresponding method Physics 28 Expired
US5668508A Oscillator circuit having oscillation frequency independent from the supply voltage value Electricity 26 Expired
US5789971A Protection circuit and method for power transistors, voltage regulator using the same Physics 19 Expired
US6075391A Turn-off circuit for an LDMOS in presence of a reverse current Electricity 18 Expired
US5453678A Programmable-output voltage regulator Physics 18 Expired
US6507227B2 Device and method for monitoring current delivered to a load Electricity 18 Expired
US5656969A Slew rate control and optimization of power consumption in a power stage Electricity 17 Expired
US6060948A Protection circuit for controlling the gate voltage of a hv LDMOS transistor Electricity 17 Expired
US4899098A Low voltage drop series regulator with overvoltage and overcurrent protection Physics 16 Expired
US5760613A Method and corresponding circuit detecting an open load Physics 13 Expired
US5376832A MOS half-bridge drive circuit, particularly for power MOS half-bridges Electricity 12 Expired
US5481221A Charge pump circuit for low supply voltage applications Electricity 11 Expired
US5119263A Negative overvoltage protection circuit for insulated vertical PNP transistors Electricity 9 Expired
US4882532A Active overvoltage control for inductive load driving Electricity 7 Expired
US5831466A Protection method for power transistors, and corresponding circuit Electricity 6 Expired
US6577171B1 Methods and apparatus for preventing inadvertent activation of power devices Electricity 6 Expired
US6031412A Control of the body voltage of a HV LDMOS Electricity 5 Expired
US5422587A Driving circuit for a field effect transistor in a final semibridge stage Electricity 5 Expired
US4786827A Antisaturation circuit for integrated PNP transistor with intervention characteristic definable according to a preset function Physics 4 Expired
US5710690A Method and apparatus for protecting an integrated circuit from current overload Electricity 3 Expired
US5182470A Negative overvoltage protection circuit, in particular for output stages Electricity 3 Expired
US6107758A Operation circuit in particular for discharge lamps using discrete time definition values to control operation state switching Electricity 3 Expired

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