Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Dean Owens

Jeffrey Dean Owens has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Programmable and scalable microcontroller architecture
    Patent number: 8521989
    Abstract: A microcontroller includes a program memory, data memory, central processing unit, at least one register module, a memory management unit, and a transport network. Instructions are executed in one clock cycle via an instruction word. The instruction word indicates the source module from which data is to be retrieved and the destination module to which data is to be stored. The address/data capability of an instruction word may be extended via a prefix module. If an operation is performed on the data, the source module or the destination module may perform the operation during the same clock cycle in which the data is transferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Dean Owens, Edward Tang K. Ma, Don Loomis, Tom Chenot