Inventor · Carpentersville, IL, US

William Roeckner

30Patents
14h-index
25Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 29, 1994 → Nov 20, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7312654B2 Quiet power up and power down of a digital audio amplifier Electricity 39 Expired
US5995033A Signal conditioning circuit including a combined ADC/DAC, sensor system, and method therefor Electricity 32 Expired
US7777563B2 Spread spectrum pulse width modulation method and apparatus Electricity 32 Active
US6504427B2 Switching amplifier having digital correction and method therefor Electricity 29 Expired
US6473457B1 Method and apparatus for producing a pulse width modulated signal Electricity 26 Expired
US6606044B2 Method and apparatus for generating a pulse width modulated signal Electricity 25 Expired
US5678227A Apparatus and method for minimizing the turn on time for a receiver operating in a discontinuous receive mode Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Expired
US6922100B2 Method and apparatus for switching amplification having variable sample point and variable order correction Electricity 19 Expired
US6665338B1 Circuitry for converting a sampled digital signal to a naturally sampled digital signal and method therefor Electricity 17 Expired
US5551078A Apparatus and method for minimizing the turn on time for a receiver operating in a discontinuous receive mode Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US5805466A Device and method for calibrating a signal Physics 15 Expired
US6605991B2 Circuitry for creating a spectral null in a differential output switching amplifier and method therefor Electricity 14 Expired
US6041007A Device with programmable memory and method of programming Physics 14 Expired
US6819912B2 Variable frequency switching amplifier and method therefor Electricity 14 Expired
US6023191A Method and apparatus for detecting an input signal Electricity 11 Expired
US7825726B2 Digital pulse width modulation for half bridge amplifiers Electricity 10 Active
US8761707B1 Radio frequency low noise amplifier load circuit Electricity 8 Active
US5939693A Polynomial calculator device, and method therefor Physics 7 Expired
US7629840B2 Digital pulse width modulated feedback system for a switching amplifier and method therefor Electricity 6 Active
US7227487B1 Digital saturation handling in integral noise shaping of pulse width modulation Electricity 6 Expired
US7382039B2 Edge seal for improving integrated circuit noise isolation Electricity 5 Expired
US5586149A Interference dependent adaptive phase clock controller Electricity 4 Expired
US7142597B2 Full bridge integral noise shaping for quantization of pulse width modulation signals Electricity 3 Expired
US8228117B2 Quiet power up and power down of closed loop digital PWM modulators Electricity 3 Active
US8278902B2 DC to DC switching power converter controller using spread spectrum PWM Electricity 2 Active

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