Inventor · Culver City, CA, US

Talbott M. Houk

18Patents
10h-index
32Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 30, 1994 → Mar 16, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6211623A Fully integrated ballast IC Electricity 70 Expired
US7019507B1 Methods and circuits for programmable current limit protection Electricity 44 Expired
US5550436A MOS gate driver integrated circuit for ballast circuits Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 40 Expired
US6331755A Circuit for detecting near or below resonance operation of a fluorescent lamp driven by half-bridge circuit Electricity 39 Expired
US5550701A Power MOSFET with overcurrent and over-temperature protection and control circuit decoupled from body diode Electricity 27 Expired
US5973943A Non zero-voltage switching protection circuit Electricity 24 Expired
US5747943A MOS gate driver integrated circuit for ballast circuits Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US5543994A MOSFET driver with fault reporting outputs Electricity 16 Expired
US7843178B1 DC/DC converter startup with frequency ramping Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Active
US7199560B2 Switch-mode power supply voltage regulator and methodology Electricity 11 Expired
US5812010A Soft-switching driver output stage and method Electricity 7 Expired
US6005354A Ballast IC with shut-down function Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired
US7714550B2 System and method for tracking a variable characteristic through a range of operation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired
US10581330B2 Metered charge transfer assisted switching regulators Electricity 2 Active
US9923468B2 Multiphase power conversion using skewed per-phase inductor current limits Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US9444281B2 Unified high power and low power battery charger Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US12393257B2 Wakeup circuit Physics 0 Active
US10305305B2 Unified high power and low power battery charger Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active

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