Patents by Inventor Douglas E. Martin

Douglas E. Martin 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: 4740916
    Abstract: A memory system for providing a contiguous address space and including several memory modules each having circuitry to provide information of their respective memory module capacity to a control circuit. The control circuit allocates a start address to the first memory module and allocates start addresses to the remaining memory modules in accordance with previously allocated start addresses and the memory capacities of the memories that have received their respected start addresses. In one embodiment, the control circuit includes a series of adders each connected to a memory module to receive memory capacity data. The adders are connected in series to compute the start addresses in a daisy chain fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1988
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Douglas E. Martin
  • Patent number: 3947774
    Abstract: A circuit for terminating the scanning operation of a signal seeking receiver includes a double-ended limit detector which responds to the AFC voltage developed in the receiver to produce a stop signal when the frequency deviations of the IF signal are within a narrow band centered about 10.7 Mhz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1976
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy P. Glennon, Douglas E. Martin