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Kent L. Bell

Examiner (ID: 3643, Phone: (571)272-0973 , Office: P/1661 )

Most Active Art Unit
1661
Art Unit(s)
1649, 1661, 1803
Total Applications
5443
Issued Applications
5266
Pending Applications
35
Abandoned Applications
158

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/523559
Successive approximation type A/D conversion circuit Nov 28, 2023 Issued
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18/519646
Successive approximation analog-to-digital converter for a PAM-(2 Nov 26, 2023 Issued
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18/517124
Offset compensated analog-to-digital converter Nov 21, 2023 Issued
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18/511401
Superconducting analog-to-digital converter (ADC) system Nov 15, 2023 Issued
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18/506652
Antennaless Wireless Device Nov 9, 2023 Abandoned
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18/496244
Voltage-to-time converter circuit and semiconductor device including the same Oct 26, 2023 Issued
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18/496457
System and method for reconfigurable hybrid analog-to-digital converter (ADC) Oct 26, 2023 Issued
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18/494731
Duty-cycle-correcting clock distribution architecture Oct 24, 2023 Issued
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18/488655
Linear multi-level DAC Oct 16, 2023 Issued
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18/487234
Scheduling analog-to-digital conversions Oct 15, 2023 Issued
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18/479019
Calibration of a digital-to-analog converter Sep 29, 2023 Issued
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18/471767
Digital-to-analog converter glitch reduction techniques Sep 20, 2023 Issued
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18/470309
Analog-to-digital converter non-linearity model estimation using single-bit digital-to-analog converter Sep 18, 2023 Issued
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18/464136
Waveform-aware mixed signal measurement system for bus traffic reduction in system-on-a-chip devices Sep 7, 2023 Issued
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18/461654
Radio frequency tuning using a multichip module electrical interconnect structure Sep 5, 2023 Issued
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18/240854
Signal processor with A-D converter and reservoir unit Aug 30, 2023 Issued
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18/241080
Methods and apparatus to improve performance of voltage to delay converters Aug 30, 2023 Issued
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18/455313
Voltage monitoring of switching drivers Aug 23, 2023 Issued
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18/454125
Sample and hold circuitry, analogue-to-digital converter circuitry including same, and sampling circuitry for sampling input voltage on sampling capacitor Aug 22, 2023 Issued
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18/452702
SUCCESSIVE-APPROXIMATION TYPE A/D CONVERSION CIRCUIT Aug 20, 2023 Pending
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