Talbott M. Houk
18Patents
10h-index
32Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 30, 1994 → Mar 16, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.