Paul Bennett's
Patent Portfolio

These patents were my inventions that I made while working at Motorola, Freescale, National Semiconductor and Texas Instruments.

I worked as an Electrical Design Engineer in the circuit design and development of radios, pagers, microprocessor controlled radio receivers, computer aided design software and tools, maskap recognition and DRC checking of integrated circuit designs, micro-machined polysilicon sensors, analog circuit designs for automotive electronics, consumer flatscreen backlight drivers, switching regulators using hysteritic control, pulse-width control, buck, boost and buck-boost designs, HV power electronics, automotive circuits for relay drivers, switches, regulators, transceivers for SPI, CAN, air-bag deployment, accelerometer sensor, anti-lock braking controls, fault detection circuits, AC-DC power converters, PFC circuits, high efficiency power conversion, silicon based MEMS oscillator.

In my day to day work I worked with marketing, semiconductor IC design, simulation, development, test, product verification and application validation teams as well as quality control, failure analysis and on-going production support.  I witnessed the grow of microprocessor and memory integration into products, the use of custom ASICs, custom analog, the growth of simulation tools and software languages.  Till the end of my career, I found many good uses for the old standard Tektronix 575 Curve Tracer.

I worked with and supported the development of many key semiconductor processes including I2L, Mosaic 1.5, Smartmos 2.5, 3, 5, 7,  ABCD5HV, ABCD6, VHVIC, TSMC250, TSMC120, GF BiCMOS SiGE.

US PATENT
DESCRIPTION/TITLE OF PATENT
US4965569
Digitized Stored Voice Paging Receiver
US5029295
Bandgap Voltage Reference
US5045964
Thermal Clamp for an Ignition Coil Driver
US5235215
Memory Device for Use in Power Control Circuits
US5209117
Tapered Cantilever Beam for Sensor Devices
US5170312
Protection Circuit on a Lead of a Power Device
US5249465
Accelerometer Utilizing an Annular Mass
US5285346
Current Driver Control Circuit for a Power Device
US5323051
Semiconductor Wafer Level Package
US5386201
Temperature Stable Square Wave Oscillator
US5337606
Laterally Sensitive Accelerometer and Method for Making
US5428352
Closed Loop Circuit for Differential Capacitive Sensor
US5504448
Current Limit Sense Circuit and Method for Controller a Transistor
US5483406
Overvoltage Protection Circuit
US5455579
Digitized Stored Voice Paging Receiver
US5872460
Fast Acting FET Test Circuit with Current Detection for SIR Diagnostics
US5734317
Current Limit Controller for an Air-bag Deployment System
US7218119
System and Method for Reducing Current in a device during testing
US6906900
Structure and Method of Thermally Protecting Power Devices for Airbag Deployment
US6348820
High-side, Low-side Configurable Driver
US7969196
Circuits and methods for buffering and communicating data signals
US7667491
US7667491B2
Low voltage output buffer and method for buffering digital output data
US7595623
Methods and apparatus for a spread spectrum switching regulator
US7538559
System and method for reducing current in a device during testing
US7365584
Slew-rate control apparatus and methods for a power transistor to reduce voltage transients during inductive flyback
US9325233
DC to DC Converter and PWM Controller with Adaptive Compensation Circuit
US5325065
Detection Circuit with Dummy Integrator to Compensate for Switch Charge Injection and Amplifier Offset Voltage



Others yet to be determined



last updated 10 Dec 2018