Patents by Inventor Marco Crepaldi

Marco Crepaldi 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).

  • Patent number: 10879909
    Abstract: A Phase-locked loop circuit including: a local oscillator, configured to generate a timing signal; a variable-length shift register, controlled by the timing signal; and a feedback control circuit, which receives a pulsed input signal and receives a local signal from the shift register. The feedback control circuit detects whether each pulse of the input signal respects a condition of temporal proximity with a corresponding pulse of the local signal and detects, for each pulse of the input signal that respects the proximity condition, whether the edge falls early, late, or within a predefined portion of the corresponding pulse of the local signal. The feedback control circuit controls the length of the shift register and the frequency of the timing signal, as a function of the detections made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventors: Marco Crepaldi, Gian Nicola Angotzi, Luca Berdondini
  • Publication number: 20200106449
    Abstract: A Phase-locked loop circuit including: a local oscillator, configured to generate a timing signal; a variable-length shift register, controlled by the timing signal; and a feedback control circuit, which receives a pulsed input signal and receives a local signal from the shift register. The feedback control circuit detects whether each pulse of the input signal respects a condition of temporal proximity with a corresponding pulse of the local signal (Voce) and detects, for each pulse of the input signal that respects the proximity condition, whether the edge falls early, late, or within a predefined portion of the corresponding pulse of the local signal. The feedback control circuit controls the length of the shift register and the frequency of the timing signal, as a function of the detections made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Marco Crepaldi, Gian Nicola Angotzi, Luca Berdondini
  • Patent number: 8699627
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, receivers for receiving a wireless data transmission are provided, the receivers comprising at least one amplifier that receives an RF input signal and produces at least one amplified signal; a mixer that mixes the at least one signal to produce a mixed signal; a filter that filters the mixed signal to produce a filtered signal, a comparator that compares the filtered signal to a threshold voltage and produces a digital signal, a first pulse generate i that generates a first pulse in response to a transition in the digital signal, a second pulse generator that generates a second pulse that is longer than the first pulse in response to a transition in the digital signal; and digital logic that generates a clock output and that generates a data output based on a state of the first pulse when the second pulse expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: The Trustee of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Marco Crepaldi, Peter Kinget
  • Publication number: 20120275549
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, receivers for receiving a wireless data transmission are provided, the receivers comprising at least one amplifier that receives an RF input signal and produces at least one amplified signal; a mixer that mixes the at least one signal to produce a mixed signal; a filter that filters the mixed signal to produce a filtered signal, a comparator that compares the filtered signal to a threshold voltage and produces a digital signal, a first pulse generate i that generates a first pulse in response to a transition in the digital signal, a second pulse generator that generates a second pulse that is longer than the first pulse in response to a transition in the digital signal; and digital logic that generates a clock output and that generates a data output based on a state of the first pulse when the second pulse expires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Marco Crepaldi, Peter Kinget