Thomas A. Schmidt
18Patents
11h-index
22Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 30, 1989 → Jul 15, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5550702A | Adaptive duty-cycle limiting for overload protection of integrated circuits | Electricity | 79 | Expired |
| US4939442A | Bandgap voltage reference and method with further temperature correction | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 51 | Expired |
| US5528125A | Buck-boost switch mode power supply with burst topology | Physics | 50 | Expired |
| US5349286A | Compensation for low gain bipolar transistors in voltage and current reference circuits | Physics | 41 | Expired |
| US6717530B1 | Multiple temperature threshold sensing having a single sense element | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 39 | Expired |
| US6408170B1 | Control circuit for a microcontroller | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 23 | Expired |
| US5880644A | N-bit pulse width modulated signal generator | Electricity | 20 | Expired |
| US5541799A | Reducing the natural current limit in a power MOS device by reducing the gate-source voltage | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US7035071B1 | Current limit with adaptive cycle skipping for switching regulators | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US5812006A | Optimized power output clamping structure | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US7071740B2 | Current limiting circuit for high-speed low-side driver outputs | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US5579193A | Reducing the natural current limit in a power MOS device by reducing the gate-source voltage | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US8040652B2 | Programmable power distribution switches with two-level current sensing | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US7236003B2 | H-bridge circuit with shoot through current prevention during power-up | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US7817393B2 | Power distribution switch circuits with fast responses to hard short-circuits | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US10197600B2 | Oscilloscope with internally generated mixed signal oscilloscope demo mode stimulus, and integrated demonstration and training signals | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US11489519B2 | Analog switch with boost current for fast turn on | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US11502674B2 | Optimized low Ron flatness gate driver | Electricity | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.