Patents by Inventor Dan C. Baker

Dan C. Baker 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: 4381550
    Abstract: Logic circuit hardware is provided for dividing a binary fraction divisor into a smaller binary fraction dividend to provide a binary fraction quotient.Initially, the divisor is stored in a storage register with its sign in the highest order bit position and remains unchanged during the division operation. Initially, the dividend is stored in a dividend shift register and is shifted left one bit before being applied to a parallel adder to perform a partial divide operation. A clock signal is provided to time the division operations, wherein, the stored dividend is added to the stored divisor in a parallel binary adder. When the highest order or sign bit of the adder is positive, the sum of the dividend and the divisor are stored in the dividend register and a binary one is stored in a quotient register. When the highest order or sign bit of the adder is negative, the dividend register is shifted left and a binary zero is filled in the quotient register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1983
    Assignee: Sperry Corporation
    Inventor: Dan C. Baker