Brian Trotter
Education
* MSEE, University of Texas at Austin (2003)
* BSEE, Columbia University in the City of New York (1996)
* BS, Economics, Columbia University in the City of New York (1995)
Bar Admissions
* United States Patent and Trademark Office
Professional Affiliations
* American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
Registered Patent Agent
202.595.1522
Brian spent over 23 years working in semiconductor design, first as a design engineer and then in various executive roles.
Brian is focused on patent research, analytics, drafting, and prosecution to help his clients make data-driven decisions about their portfolios.
Publications
“The Hows and Whys of Sigma-Delta Converters”, Workshop at the 122nd AES Convention, Vienna, Austria, May 5-8, 2007
T Rueger, B Duewer, S Hodapp, T Lei, J Melanson, and B Trotter, “A 110dB Ternary PWM Current-Mode Audio DAC with Monolithic 2Vrms Driver”, 2004 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference
Patents
Brian is listed as an inventor on 12 issued patents including:
US 10411822: Method and apparatus for controlling a multichannel TDM device
US 7277035: Method and apparatus for reducing noise in a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) having a chopper output stage
US 6965335: Methods for output edge-balancing in pulse width modulation systems and data converters using the same