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Howard L Williams

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Most Active Art Unit
2819
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2104, 2107, 2845, 2819
Total Applications
2390
Issued Applications
2093
Pending Applications
82
Abandoned Applications
216

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/117402
Analog to digital (A/D) converter and power conversion apparatus having the same Aug 29, 2018 Issued
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16/050986
Graph-based compression of data records Jul 30, 2018 Issued
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16/040140
Method of performing analog-to-digital conversion Jul 18, 2018 Issued
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16/030929
Switch mode power supply using a reconfigurable delta-sigma modulator and method of driving the same Jul 9, 2018 Issued
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16/029644
Successive approximation register (SAR) analog to digital converter (ADC) with overlapping reference voltage ranges Jul 7, 2018 Issued
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16/029259
Compression and decompression engines and compressed domain processors Jul 5, 2018 Issued
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16/028002
Oversampled continuous-time pipeline ADC with digital signal reconstruction Jul 4, 2018 Issued
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16/013985
Semiconductor device and operating method thereof Jun 20, 2018 Issued
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15/997571
Loop consistency using multiple channel estimates Jun 3, 2018 Issued
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15/993612
Efficient successive approximation register analog to digital converter May 30, 2018 Issued
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15/995034
Current steering structure with improved linearity May 30, 2018 Issued
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15/992646
Programmable digital sigma delta modulator May 29, 2018 Issued
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15/992797
Circuit for and method of receiving data in an integrated circuit May 29, 2018 Issued
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15/974752
Successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter with kickback linearization May 8, 2018 Issued
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15/950436
Randomized time-interleaved digital-to-analog converters Apr 10, 2018 Issued
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15/948763
Efficient software closing of hardware-generated encoding context Apr 8, 2018 Issued
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15/947222
Digital-to-analog converter (DAC) termination Apr 5, 2018 Issued
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15/946324
Digital-to-analog converter Apr 4, 2018 Issued
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15/926442
Sigma delta modulator, integrated circuit and method therefor Mar 19, 2018 Issued
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15/920611
Analog-to-digital converter and signal processing apparatus Mar 13, 2018 Issued
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