Patents by Inventor David A. Browne

David A. Browne 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).

  • Multi-I/O serial peripheral interface for precision converters
    Patent number: 11256652
    Abstract: A Multi-I/O SPI for precision converters supports a Dual/Quad/Octal SPI to support the speed requirements for digital transmission and also includes a special mode that can be enabled by hardware and/or software to remove the bit scrambling requirement dictated by the JEDEC standard. The special mode removes the scramble requirement and associates each of the bidirectional data lines to a specific channel. The special mode provides backward compatibility that permits the precision converter to be used with controllers that do not natively support the JEDEC standard. Also, the Multi-I/O SPI includes registers divided into a primary region that is accessed only in default mode at power-up for write and/or read operations, and a secondary region that is accessed by any mode enabled in the control register. By restricting access to the “control” register area to a pre-defined mode in the converter at power-up, the access mode can be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Miguel Usach Merino, Wes Vernon Lofamia, Fergus John Downey, David A. Browne, Thomas Murphy
  • MULTI-I/O SERIAL PERIPHERAL INTERFACE FOR PRECISION CONVERTERS
    Publication number: 20200401549
    Abstract: A Multi-I/O SPI for precision converters supports a Dual/Quad/Octal SPI to support the speed requirements for digital transmission and also includes a special mode that can be enabled by hardware and/or software to remove the bit scrambling requirement dictated by the JEDEC standard. The special mode removes the scramble requirement and associates each of the bidirectional data lines to a specific channel. The special mode provides backward compatibility that permits the precision converter to be used with controllers that do not natively support the JEDEC standard. Also, the Multi-I/O SPI includes registers divided into a primary region that is accessed only in default mode at power-up for write and/or read operations, and a secondary region that is accessed by any mode enabled in the control register. By restricting access to the “control” register area to a pre-defined mode in the converter at power-up, the access mode can be controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Miguel Usach Merino, Wes Vernon Lofamia, Fergus John Downey, David A. Browne, Thomas Murphy
  • Vehicle occupant protection safety device
    Patent number: D837683
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: ToughLove Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Browne, Roy Watson
  • Vehicle occupant protection safety device
    Patent number: D837684
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: ToughLove Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Browne, Roy Watson