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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188897 | Analog to digital converter An analog to digital converter includes a dielectric substrate, an analog input wire, and digital output wires, with a metal insulator extending over the digital output wires. The analog input wire can be in proximity to the dielectric substrate and can generate hea... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8098179 | Systems, methods and apparatus for digital-to-analog conversion of superconducting magnetic flux signals A superconducting flux digital-to-analog converter includes a superconducting inductor ladder circuit. The ladder circuit includes a plurality of closed superconducting current paths that each includes at least two superconducting inductors coupled in series to form... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8035540 | Systems, methods and apparatus for local programming of quantum processor elements Systems, methods and apparatus for a scalable quantum processor architecture. A quantum processor is locally programmable by providing a memory register with a signal embodying device control parameter(s), converting the signal to an analog signal; and administering... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7994955 | Analog-to-analog lighting apparatus and methods The invention provides a system of generation of multi-channel analog output signals, from a single analog input signal, and the controlled activation of peripheral devices responsive to the multi-channel analog output signals. A single-channel to multi-channel anal... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7952503 | High speed voltage following device for analog-to-digital conversion system A voltage following device is described, for the driving of a sampling network coupleable to an analog/digital converter, comprising at least one first transistor provided with a first terminal to receive an input signal, and a second terminal to provide an output s... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7928875 | Superconductor analog-to-digital converter A superconducting Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) employing rapid-single-flux-quantum (RSFQ) logic is disclosed. The ADC has only superconductor active components, and is characterized as being an Nth-order bandpass sigma-delta ADC, with the order “N... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7876248 | Systems, methods and apparatus for local programming of quantum processor elements Systems, methods and apparatus for a scalable quantum processor architecture. A quantum processor is locally programmable by providing a memory register with a signal embodying device control parameter(s), converting the signal to an analog signal; and administering... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7733253 | Superconductor multi-level quantizer A superconductor multi-level quantizer is disclosed, which quantizer includes a number N of Josephson junction (JJ) comparators connected in parallel to a common input node. The quantizer further includes at least one flux bias device. Each flux bias device is capab... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7728748 | Superconducting analog-to-digital converter A superconducting bandpass sigma-delta Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) is disclosed. The ADC is characterized as being an Nth-order, having N resonators, with N being at least 2. The ADC also may have N−1 amplifiers, where the amplifiers directionally... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7719453 | Analogue-digital converter using Josephson DAC and method thereof The present invention relates to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and an analog-to-digital conversion method employing a Josephson digital-to-analog converter (DAC) into an extremely accurate ADC of a physical metrology grade. The ADC includes: a front end ADC f... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7616139 | Analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) based on current flow between paired probes and electrodes An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is provided to determine a digital output value according to whether electric current flows between a plurality of probes, to which an input voltage is applied, and a plurality of electrodes. Therefore, high resolution and high s... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7586427 | Sequential triggering of series-connected resonant tunneling diodes One embodiment of the invention includes a quantization circuit. The circuit comprises a sense resistor configured to provide a voltage that is indicative of a digital quantization of an input voltage. The circuit also comprises a plurality of resonant tunneling dio... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7570183 | System of multi-channel analog signal generation and controlled activation of multiple peripheral devices The invention provides a system of generation of multi-channel analog output signals, from a single analog input signal, and the controlled activation of peripheral devices responsive to the multi-channel analog output signals. A single-channel to multi-channel anal... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7522078 | Method of generation and method of detection of interband phase difference solition and interband phase difference circuit The length portion of part of a multiband superconductor line 10 is used as a closed circuit line part Rc that constitutes part of a closed circuit allowing passage of an electric current Io generated by an electric current source 12. Meantime, the lin... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7495592 | Low-power voltage comparator based on quantum tunneling coupled transistors A voltage comparator including a quantum tunneling coupled transistor and a method for tuning the voltage comparator. The comparator includes a quantum tunneling coupled transistor coupled to a resistor and is capable of operating above 10 Giga-samples-per-second or... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7471224 | Broadband analog to digital conversion using analog spectral recording A method and apparatus for converting an analog waveform to a series of digital values includes receiving an input analog waveform to be digitized over a particular frequency band. A phase-sensitive frequency-domain representation of the input analog waveform is rec... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7400282 | Quantum turing machine A quantum Turing machine constituted using a quantum bit created by localizing a phase difference soliton S between superconducting electrons existing in each of multiple of bands in a ring R0 that includes a ring main body R1 formed of a superconducto... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7365663 | Flux-quantizing superconducting analog to digital converter (ADC) A superconducting analog-to-digital converter includes a superconducting input loop to which is applied an analog voltage to be converted to a digital format. The superconducting loop includes two Josephson junctions for converting said analog input voltage into a s... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7345604 | Analog to digital conversion using recurrent neural networks A system for converting an analog signal into a digital data stream includes a recurrent network with a plurality of converter circuits that individually receive the same analog signal as input. The circuits then generate a plurality of spike outputs that exhibit ch... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342526 | Digital-to-analog converter using plural transistors having the same operating characteristics A digital-to-analog converter converts a digital input signal into an analog signal. The digital-to-analog converter includes: a power-supply unit for outputting voltages of different magnitudes through plural output terminals thereof; plural switches connected to t... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337216 | Electronic system architecture An electronic system architecture comprises a plurality of client devices connected in a hierarchical structure in which the client devices form nodes in the structure interconnected by communications links. One client device at the top of the hierarchical structure... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336211 | Resistance compensated DAC ladder Circuits, methods, and apparatus for inhibiting non-monotonic output voltage behavior in an R-2R ladder digital to analog converter (DAC). Resistance values of selected resistors of the R-2R ladder are designed to compensate for finite resistances of switches and fo... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330064 | Geometric ladder circuit with linear-in-dB transfer function A geometric ladder circuit produces a transfer function having substantially uniform steps measured in dB. Where the ladder has a plurality of substantially identical resistor rungs of a first resistance, one stile that is a conductor connecting the rungs, and anoth... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330138 | Asynchronous sample rate correction by time domain interpolation A circuit is provided to correct a sample rate by way of time domain interpolation having a first circuit loop having an up/down counter configured to receive an input signal and a feedback signal and an adder configured to receive the output signal from the up/down... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324605 | High-throughput multicarrier communication systems and methods for exchanging channel state information A frame structure for communicating over a high-throughput communication channel includes a channelization field as part of a current data unit to indicate a frequency and space configuration of subsequent portions of the current data unit. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324034 | Methods and apparatus to balance reference settling in switched-capacitor pipelined digital to analog converter The linearity of switched-capacitor, pipeline digital to analog converters is improved by balancing the settling behavior of its pre-charge switches. In more detail, a switched capacitor DAC includes a number of substantially identical cells, one cell for each bit o... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7307266 | Method and apparatus for an optically clocked optoelectronic track and hold device A method and apparatus for optically clocked optoelectronic track and hold (“OCOETH”) device. The OCOETH device includes a diode bridge, input node, at least two current sources and at least two photodetectors. The input node is operatively coupled to the diode ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7283068 | Binary decoders in electronic integrated circuits An improved binary decoder incorporating a selection circuit that activates a selected output corresponding to a input binary value, and a deselecting circuit coupled to each output that deactivates all other outputs when the selected output is activated. The desele... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274317 | Transmitter using vertical BJT A transmitter having a vertical BJT, capable of reducing power consumption, carrier leakage of a local oscillator and an error vector magnitude (EVM), is disclosed. In the transmitter, vertical BJTs implemented by a standard triplex well CMOS process are used in a f... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268713 | Superconducting circuit A circuit includes a latch circuit including a Josephson junction and configured to perform a latch operation based on a hysteresis characteristic in response to a single flux quantum, a load circuit including load inductance and load resistance and coupled to an ou... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265598 | Narrow ultra wideband pulse generator A circuitry for generating a narrow impulse including an input device coupled to a matching circuitry that is coupled to a step recovery diode (SRD). The input device is configured to receive a succession of digital input signals, each characterized by having high l... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7253701 | Multiplexed amplifier Multiple sensor signals are used to modulate an equal number of frequency-spaced carrier signals in a directional parametric upconverting amplifier. Basically, the carrier signals are separated in a cascaded or parallel configuration of narrow frequency passbands, w... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253759 | Continuous-time delta-sigma modulators using distributed resonators A distributed resonator or filter in a continuous-time delta-sigma modulator is disclosed, where the transfer function of the resonator or filter repeats every Fs, where Fs is the sampling frequency of the modulator. On one side, like continuou... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7242336 | Continuous-time delta-sigma ADC for a radio receiver employing 200 kHz IF A Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converter (CTΔΣADC) for a radio frequency (RF) receiver employing a 200 kHz IF realizes an optimal signal-to-noise ratio using a programmable resonator that is set to resonate at 200 kHz. The programmable resonator i... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236111 | Linearizing methods and structures for amplifiers Methods and structures are provided to enhance the linearity of amplifiers such as those which include a complementary common-collector amplifier stage. The methods and structures configure this stage so that each transistor of the stage drives an output port throug... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230555 | Sigma delta converter with flying capacitor input A sigma delta analog to digital converter of the type adapted to be connected to a capacitive current input device, comprises: a sigma delta modulator having an input; and a flying capacitor constructed so as to be connected between the input of the sigma delta modu... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227480 | Current steering type single flux quantum circuit Disclosed is a single flux quantum circuit that uses a flux quantum as an information carrier, which generates a SFQ clock signal with little clock jitter and supplies the SFQ clock signal to a SFQ function circuit of the SFQ circuit, the SFQ function circuit is con... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224300 | Floating gate digital-to-analog converter The present invention provides a DAC constructed from a series of floating gate devices which are programmable to a series of predetermined values. Addressing one or more of the programmed floating gate devices, will select from a wide variety of analog outputs. Rep... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224301 | Floating gate digital-to-analog converter The present invention provides a DAC constructed from a series of floating gate devices which are programmable to a series of predetermined values. Addressing one or more of the programmed floating gate devices, will select from a wide variety of analog outputs. Rep... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7220965 | Warm AC biasing in TES microcalorimeter readout via transformer Prospective readout architecture with Transition Edge Sensor (TES) electrical biasing from the warm readout is introduced. The architecture allows building of large imaging detector arrays with TES. The invention allows an unprecedented combination of imaging and sp... | 05/22/2007 |
