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Number of patents: 174
Last date: May 22, 2012

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8184674	Time-hopping low-power wireless network for turning off and on fluorescent lamps A low-power wireless network involves a master and a plurality of RF-enabled fluorescent lamp starter units. In each of a plurality of intervals, a starter wakes up and listens for a beacon, regardless of whether a beacon is transmitted during that interval or not. ...	05/22/2012
8165832	Wall plug power monitor A wall plug power monitor accurately measures power consumption of an appliance connected via a wall plug power monitor to AC power supplies of any of the various frequencies used around the world. A three milliohm current sense resistor minimizes power consumption ...	04/24/2012
8161450	Re-programmable modular power management circuit An integrated circuit includes a buck converter controller, a PFET, an NFET that is coupled in common drain configuration to the PFET, a first microbump that is connected to the source of the PFET, a second microbump that is connected to the source of the NFET, a th...	04/17/2012
8149191	Sequential calibration of matched current sources A system involves LED strings and programmable current source circuits (CSC). An LED current flows through each LED string. Each LED current is controlled by an associated programmable CSC. In one embodiment, the CSCs form a chain. A first CSC uses a reference curre...	04/03/2012
8143865	Average current mode controlled converter having a buck mode, a boost mode, and a partial four-switch mode An average current-mode controlled converter has a buck mode, a boost mode, and a four-switch mode. In one example, the converter operates in one of the three modes, depending on the difference between the converter output voltage VOUT and the converter input voltag...	03/27/2012
8129854	Ocean wave energy extractor An ocean wave energy extractor includes a first flotation device that contains a second flotation device and a mechanism for extracting energy. The wave energy extractor floats in seawater and extracts energy from waves. A propagating wave rotates the first flotatio...	03/06/2012
8129834	Integral metal structure with conductive post portions A plurality of FPGA dice is disposed upon a semiconductor substrate. In order to supply the immense power required by the plurality of FPGA dice, power is routed through the semiconductor substrate vertically from thick metal layers and large integral metal structur...	03/06/2012
8118611	PCB bridge connector for connecting PCB devices A bridge connector made of PCB material has a first plurality of press-fit pins on one portion of the bridge connector and a second plurality of press-fit pins on another portion of the bridge connector. Within the connector is a set of signal conductors. Each condu...	02/21/2012
8106607	Network master for wireless fluorescent lamp lighting control networks A system involves a plurality of RF-enabled occupancy detectors. Each occupancy detector communicates with and controls an associated plurality of RF-enabled fluorescent lamp starter units. A network master has an RF transceiver used to communicate with the occupanc...	01/31/2012
8093121	ESD protection transistor An electrostatic discharge (ESD) transistor structure includes a self-aligned outrigger less than 0.4 microns from a gate electrode that is 50 microns wide. The outrigger is fabricated on ordinary logic transistors of an integrated circuit without severely affecting...	01/10/2012
8084987	USB port with smart power management A method involves detecting an inrush current that flows out of a USB port of a first electronic device when a central processing unit (CPU) of the first electronic device is not being powered. The inrush current is detected by a novel inrush current detect circuit ...	12/27/2011
8080988	Switch driver with low impedance initial drive and higher impedance final drive A driver circuit (for example, in a switching power supply or in a Class-D switching amplifier) drives a gate of a switch during a transition with a low output impedance during an initial period and then for the remainder of the transition drives the gate with a mid...	12/20/2011
8077487	Using output drop detection pulses to achieve fast transient response from a low-power mode In a first aspect, in a Primary Side Regulation (PSR) power supply, some primary current pulses are used to forward bias an output diode such that an auxiliary winding voltage can be properly sampled after each pulse. The samples are used to regulate the power suppl...	12/13/2011
8074033	Cooperating memory controllers that share data bus terminals for accessing wide external devices A memory controller mechanism is operable in a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, a first memory controller portion of the mechanism can use a first set of data terminals to perform a first external bus access operation (EBAO) and a second memory contr...	12/06/2011
8062941	ESD protection transistor An electrostatic discharge (ESD) transistor structure includes a self-aligned outrigger less than 0.4 microns from a gate electrode that is 50 microns wide. The outrigger is fabricated on ordinary logic transistors of an integrated circuit without severely affecting...	11/22/2011
8059429	Using output drop detection pulses to achieve fast transient response from a low-power mode In a first aspect, in a Primary Side Regulation (PSR) power supply, some primary current pulses are used to forward bias an output diode such that an auxiliary winding voltage can be properly sampled after each pulse. The samples are used to regulate the power suppl...	11/15/2011
8051235	Conditional back-to-back interrupt vectoring Upon execution of an interrupt return (IRET) instruction when a second interrupt is pending, rather than popping a stack, obtaining processor state information, and then pushing the state information back onto the stack prior to vectoring off to a second interrupt s...	11/01/2011
8040699	Secondary side constant voltage and constant current controller A low-cost integrated circuit is used as a secondary side constant voltage and constant current controller. The integrated circuit has four terminals and two amplifier circuits. A first amplifier circuit is used to sense a voltage on a FB terminal and in response to...	10/18/2011
8014217	Serially loading programming information into a PSR CC/CV controller integrated circuit A primary-side regulation (PSR) controller integrated circuit includes a PSR CC/CV controller and a non-volatile shift register. An assembled power supply that includes the integrated circuit is in-circuit tested to determine errors in power supply output voltage an...	09/06/2011
7999388	Preventing breakage of long metal signal conductors on semiconductor substrates An apparatus includes a volume of insulator disposed over a top surface of a semiconductor substrate, a tube of soft dielectric, and a metal conductor. The insulator has a hardness of more than approximately three gigapascals (gPa) and the soft dielectric has a hard...	08/16/2011
7978558	In-circuit programming of output voltage and output current characteristics of a PSR power supply A primary-side regulation (PSR) controller integrated circuit includes a PSR CC/CV controller and a non-volatile shift register. An assembled power supply that includes the integrated circuit is in-circuit tested to determine errors in power supply output voltage an...	07/12/2011
7978484	Flyback constant voltage converter having both a PWFM mode and a PWM mode A flyback AC/DC switching converter has a constant voltage (CV) mode. The CV mode has sub-modes. In one sub-mode (“mid output power sub-mode”), the output voltage (VOUT) of the converter is regulated using both pulse width modulation and pulse frequency modulati...	07/12/2011
7978029	Multiple-layer signal conductor A multiple-layer signal conductor has increased surface area for mitigation of skin effect. Parallel extending elongated strips of conductive material are placed in parallel layers and are separated by a thin layer of dielectric. The elongated strips are conductivel...	07/12/2011
7962041	IrDA transceiver module that also functions as remote control IR transmitter The infrared LED of an IrDA module transmits IR energy with a peak wavelength (for example, 875 nm) appropriate for IrDA communication. This peak wavelength is lower than is the wavelength (for example, 940 nm) used in ordinary IR remote controls (RC). The IrDA LED ...	06/14/2011
7944041	Integrated semiconductor substrate structure using incompatible processes A plurality of FPGA dice is disposed upon a semiconductor substrate. In order both to connect thousands of signal interconnect lines between the plurality of FPGA dice and to supply the immense power required, it is desired that the substrate construction include tw...	05/17/2011
7937863	Air freshner device An air freshener device comprises one or more planar elements that can move relative to a base, where each planar element is connected to the base by a flexible connector, and where each planar element releases a fragrance. The planar elements and the flexible conne...	05/10/2011
7928772	Clock input filter circuit A clock input filter uses a first programmable low-pass delay element to filter during a low period of an input clock signal and to output a SET signal. The clock input filter uses a second programmable low-pass delay element to filter during a high period of the in...	04/19/2011
7927944	ESD protection transistor An electrostatic discharge (ESD) transistor structure includes a self-aligned outrigger less than 0.4 microns from a gate electrode that is 50 microns wide. The outrigger is fabricated on ordinary logic transistors of an integrated circuit without severely affecting...	04/19/2011
7898090	General purpose ball grid array security cap A general purpose BGA security cap includes a substrate, an integrated circuit die, and an array of bond balls. The substrate includes an anti-tamper security mesh of conductors. The bond balls include outer bond balls and inner bond balls that are fixed to the unde...	03/01/2011
7884489	Press-fit integrated circuit package involving compressed spring contact beams An insulative substrate includes a plurality of flexible retaining clips and a plurality of alignment and retaining pins. A metal leadframe includes a plurality of leads. Each lead terminates in a spring contact beam portion. The leadframe is attached to the substra...	02/08/2011
7855672	Compressed codeset database format for remote control devices A database of codesets for a remote control device includes codeset information blocks for derivative codesets and codeset information blocks for nonderivative codesets. A codeset information block for a derivative codeset includes: a bit indicating that the block i...	12/21/2010
7831874	Local defect memories on semiconductor substrates in a stack computer A reconfigurable high performance computer includes a stack of semiconductor substrate assemblies (SSAs). Some SSAs involve FPGA dice that are surface mounted, as bare dice, to a semiconductor substrate. Other SSAs involve memory dice that are surface mounted to a s...	11/09/2010
7829994	Semiconductor substrate elastomeric stack A reconfigurable high performance computer occupies less than 360 cubic inches and has an approximate compute power of 0.7 teraflops per second while consuming less than 1000 watts. The computer includes a novel stack of semiconductor substrate assemblies. Some semi...	11/09/2010
7817197	Optical black calibration Preview mode low-resolution readouts occur, and then a shutter button on a camera is pressed, which causes an image sensor cleanout operation to occur. Following the cleanout, a high-resolution readout occurs. As rows of sensor values are read, the first rows are ro...	10/19/2010
7807528	ESD protection transistor An electrostatic discharge (ESD) transistor structure includes a self-aligned outrigger less than 0.4 microns from a gate electrode that is 50 microns wide. The outrigger is fabricated on ordinary logic transistors of an integrated circuit without severely affecting...	10/05/2010
7795761	Power converters with switched capacitor buck/boost A power converter having a switched capacitor buck/boost operation has first and second switches coupled to a first switching node, third and fourth switches coupled to a second switching node, a capacitor coupled between the first and second switching nodes, and an...	09/14/2010
7788608	Microbump function assignment in a buck converter An integrated circuit includes a buck converter controller, a PFET, an NFET that is coupled in common drain configuration to the PFET, a first microbump that is connected to the source of the PFET, a second microbump that is connected to the source of the NFET, a th...	08/31/2010
7768319	Clock input filter circuit A clock input filter uses a first programmable low-pass delay element to filter during a low period of an input clock signal and to output a SET signal. The clock input filter uses a second programmable low-pass delay element to filter during a high period of the in...	08/03/2010
7764498	Comb-shaped power bus bar assembly structure having integrated capacitors A reconfigurable high performance computer occupies less than 360 cubic inches and has an approximate compute power of 0.7 teraflops per second while consuming less than 1000 watts. The computer includes a novel stack of semiconductor substrate assemblies. Some semi...	07/27/2010
7752686	Infinity shower pan A shower pan includes a draining base portion that drains to an orifice. The draining base portion includes a support structure for supporting a slab floor member (for example, a single piece of granite, marble, or engineered stone) above the orifice such that a pla...	07/13/2010

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