G05F 1/468
Characterised by reference voltage circuitry
Official title: {characterised by reference voltage circuitry, e.g. soft start, remote shutdown}
G05F1/468 (Characterised by reference voltage circuitry) appears on 744 US grants and 679 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G05F- Granted patents
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| 2026 | 53 | 39 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Voltage reference circuit, integrated circuit, and method for generating a reference voltage29 Sep 2026US 12,748,444 B2Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
- Low-dropout regulator circuit and electronic device29 Sep 2026US 12,748,446 B2u-blox AG
- Bandgap device and start-up circuit thereof15 Sep 2026US 12,736,994 B2Faraday Technology Corp.
- Voltage regulation circuit with an independent reference voltage8 Sep 2026US 12,730,464 B2STMicroelectronics S,r.l.
- Voltage regulator and reference voltage generation circuit8 Sep 2026US 12,730,467 B2Mediatek Inc.
- Current driver device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288179 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current steering in voltage regulators24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288186 A1Intel Corporation
- Voltage reference circuit24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288189 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Circuit to Protect Against Multi-Rail Voltage Glitching Attacks10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267386 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Fault response control in power converters3 Sep 2026US 2026/0261113 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Constant current sources with programmable voltage source374US 5,154,172 ACyberonics, Inc. · 1992
- Implanted apparatus having micro processor controlled current and voltage sources with reduced voltage levels when not providing stimulation320US 5,179,950 ACyberonics, Inc. · 1993
- Implanted apparatus disabling switching regulator operation to allow radio frequency signal reception290US 5,235,980 ACyberonics, Inc. · 1993
- Simultaneous radio frequency and magnetic field microprocessor reset circuit278US 5,186,170 ACyberonics, Inc. · 1993
- Writable analog reference voltage storage device147US 5,166,562 ASynaptics Incorporated · 1992