Patents Represented by Attorney Ronald J. Martin
  • Patent number: 8206272
    Abstract: An exercise machine suitable for exercising a person's muscles contains a frame (100), a seat (102) situated over the frame, a seatback (104), a connection mechanism (106) for flexibly and adjustably connecting the seatback to the frame or/and the seat, and a pedaling mechanism (112) connectable to the frame. The pedaling mechanism has a pair of movable pedals (140) that revolve generally around a pedaling axis. The seatback is capable of swiveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Ab Rider L.L.C.
    Inventor: Donald D. Greene
  • Patent number: 8084827
    Abstract: A group of high-performance like-polarity insulated-gate field-effect transistors (100, 108, 112, 116, 120, and 124 or 102, 110, 114, 118, 122, and 126) have selectably different configurations of lateral source/drain extensions, halo pockets, and gate dielectric thicknesses suitable for a semiconductor fabrication platform that provides a wide variety of transistors for analog and/or digital applications. Each transistor has a pair of source/drain zones, a gate dielectric layer, and a gate electrode. Each source/drain zone includes a main portion and a more lightly doped lateral extension. The lateral extension of one of the source/drain zones of one of the transistors is more heavily doped or/and extends less deeply below the upper semiconductor surface than the lateral extension of one of the source/drain zones of another of the transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Constantin Bulucea, William D. French, Donald M. Archer, Jeng-Jiun Yang, Sandeep R. Bahl, D. Courtney Parker