John Melanson Awarded 500th US Patent

John Melanson, senior technical fellow at Cirrus Logic has been granted his 500th U.S. patent, an achievement that places him among the world’s most prolific inventors.

His patents relating to LED lighting have positively impacted the environment through significant energy savings.

Melanson’s innovations have also been the catalyst to many products that led to rapid product advancements in personal computing, semiconductors and networking. His first patent in 1974 helped make modern keyboards possible, and his underlying work in light-emitting diodes electronics helped enable LEDs to overtake incandescent lighting in popularity by solving the challenges around dimming.