Inventor

David Alan Brown

Inventor

Carp, CA

Overview

1976–2020

Patent span

Electricity

Primary field (CPC H)

Patents· 83 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

H05Bprimary

H05BElectric heating15%

H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication13%

G06FElectric digital data processing11%

G09GArrangements or circuits for control of indicating devices using static means to present variable information8%

H02MApparatus for conversion between ac and ac, between ac and dc, or between dc and dc, and for use with mains or similar power supply systems6%

H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television4%

Y02BClimate change mitigation technologies related to buildings, e.g. housing, house appliances or related end-user applications3%

G10KSound-producing devices3%

H02JElectric power networks3%

A61PSpecific therapeutic activity of chemical compounds or medicinal preparations2%

PatentTitleYear

10,880,764Circuits, devices, and methods for monitoring a serial bus2020 10,864,182Treatment of fragile X syndrome2020 10,699,408Device and method for tree health assessment2020 10,505,446Circuits, devices and methods for bypassing voltage regulation in voltage regulators2019 10,333,302Circuits, devices and methods for selecting voltage sources2019 10,146,722Method and apparatus for operating of a PCIe retimer over optical cable2018 10,038,373Circuits, devices and methods for bypassing voltage regulation in voltage regulators2018 9,723,244'Low cost LED driver with improved serial bus'2017 9,622,310'Serial lighting interface with embedded feedback'2017 9,609,708'Low cost LED driver with integral dimming capability'2017 9,351,364'Low cost LED driver with improved serial bus'2016 9,295,128'Single wire serial interface'2016 9,295,123'Serial lighting interface with embedded feedback'2016 9,288,861'Serial lighting interface with embedded feedback'2016 9,265,113'Single wire serial interface'2016 9,247,607'Single wire serial interface utilizing count of encoded clock pulses with reset'2016 9,232,587'Low cost LED driver with integral dimming capability'2016 9,220,139'Serial lighting interface with embedded feedback'2015 9,210,753'Serial lighting interface with embedded feedback'2015 9,146,890'Method and apparatus for mapped I/O routing in an interconnect switch'2015 9,025,495'Flexible routing engine for a PCI express switch and method of use'2015 9,015,515'Single wire serial interface'2015 8,995,302'Method and apparatus for translated routing in an interconnect switch'2015 8,952,619'Low cost LED driver with integral dimming capability'2015 8,947,407'Low cost LED driver with integral dimming capability'2015 8,933,634'Low cost LED driver with integral dimming capability'2015 8,917,734'Method and apparatus for an aggregated non-transparent requester ID translation for a PCIe switch'2014 8,810,162'Low cost LED driver with improved serial bus'2014 8,786,216'Low cost LED driver with improved serial bus'2014 8,779,696'Low cost LED driver with improved serial bus'2014 8,638,640'Acoustic transducers for underwater navigation and communication'2014 8,599,913'Data regeneration apparatus and method for PCI express'2013 8,539,275'Single wire serial interface'2013 8,400,915'Pipeline scheduler for a packet switch'2013 8,402,181'Bifurcate arbiter'2013 8,401,013'Congestion management in a network'2013 8,391,302'High-performance ingress buffer for a packet switch'2013 8,335,696'Indexed competition health care network method'2012 8,295,293'Predictive flow control for a packet switch'2012 8,284,790'Packet switch with enqueue structure for odering packets'2012 8,174,969'Congestion management for a packet switch'2012 8,027,224'Broadband underwater acoustic transducer'2011 7,923,972'Systems and methods for charging a battery with a digital charge reduction loop'2011 7,921,320'Single wire serial interface'2011 7,803,586'Chemical Process'2010 7,715,385'Default route coding'2010 7,705,570'Power supply output voltage trimming'2010 7,656,132'Battery charger apparatus with a digital charge reduction loop'2010 7,501,801'Power supply output voltage trimming'2009 7,135,789'Controlling devices using cascaded control units'2006 7,127,631'Single wire serial interface utilizing count of encoded clock pulses with reset'2006 7,116,958'Interference rejection in a radio receiver'2006 7,109,324'Process for chemically bonding an odor-encapsulating agent to textiles and textiles formed by the process'2006 7,080,273'Sequencing power supplies on daughter boards'2006 7,071,838'Coupling signals via a coupling arrangement'2006 7,049,870'Digital controllers for DC converters'2006 6,917,226'Transformer coupling arrangement and method using a plurality of drivers'2005 6,911,746'Signal and power transformer coupling arrangements'2005 6,879,139'Sequencing power supplies'2005 6,861,520'Process for chemically bonding an odor-encapsulating agent to textiles and textiles formed by the process'2005 6,850,048'Power supply controller'2005 6,768,702'Baffled ring directional transducers and arrays'2004 6,692,449'Methods and system for assessing limb position sense during movement'2004 6,551,219'Cyclic ergometer'2003 6,473,428'Multi-threaded, multi-cast switch'2002 6,415,002'Phase and amplitude modulation of baseband signals'2002 6,360,284'System for protecting output drivers connected to a powered-off load'2002 6,348,834'Linearization of FET channel impedance for small signal applications'2002 6,314,489'Methods and systems for storing cell data using a bank of cell buffers'2001 6,310,875'Method and apparatus for port memory multicast common memory switches'2001 6,256,511'Dual-mode radio architecture'2001 6,185,206'ATM switch which counts multicast cell copies and uses a second memory for a decremented cell count value'2001 6,101,538'Generic managed object model for LAN domain'2000 5,990,177'Treatment of diseases mediated by the nitric oxide/cGMP/protein kinase G pathway'1999 5,896,380'Multi-core ATM switch with cells in the core from an inlet for an outlet being aligned'1999 5,775,939'Interface assembly for peripheral accessories'1998 5,726,602'Stabilized rail-to-rail speaker driver circuit'1998 5,401,527'Process for preparing improved hydrolyzed protein'1995 5,369,485'Fiber optic accelerometer with centrally supported flexural disk'1994 5,317,929'Fiber optic flexural disk accelerometer'1994 5,212,670'Flextensional hydrophone'1993 4,807,642'Electromyographic repetitive strain injury monitor'1989 3,964,103'Magnetic transducer with trim erase and housing therefor'1976

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1976–2016Based in Los Gatos, CA, US· patent location history

1989–2016Patents assigned to BROWN DAVID A (18)· patent assignee history

1994–2014Based in Barrington, RI, US· patent location history

1998–2002Based in Indianapolis, IN, US· patent location history

1999–2018Based in Carp, CA· patent location history

2006–2016Patents assigned to ADVANCED ANALOGIC TECH INC (16)· patent assignee history

2010–2020Based in San Jose, CA, US· patent location history

2012–2018Patents assigned to BROWN DAVID ALAN (9)· patent assignee history

2013–2016Patents assigned to WILLIAMS RICHARD K (10)· patent assignee history

2014–2016Patents assigned to D ANGELO KEVIN (12)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
BROWN DAVID Aself	18	1989–2016
ADVANCED ANALOGIC TECH INC	16	2006–2016
D ANGELO KEVIN	12	2014–2016
WILLIAMS RICHARD K	10	2013–2016
BROWN DAVID ALANself	9	2012–2018

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Carp, CA	29	1999–2018
San Jose, California, US	21	2010–2020
Los Gatos, California, US	8	1976–2016
Barrington, RI, US	4	1994–2014
Indianapolis, IN, US	3	1998–2002