Patents by Inventor John McNitt

John McNitt 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).

  • Publication number: 20160049807
    Abstract: A power management unit accurately measures and controls charging current. The power management unit may be implemented more efficiently than prior designs, leading to cost savings in the implementation of the power management unit as well as in the implementation of the device that incorporates the power management unit. The power management unit incorporates a model of an external charge control device (e.g., a transistor) and uses that model in a way that allows the power management unit to eliminate external device pins and other circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Kerry Thompson, John McNitt, Mark David Rutherford
  • Patent number: 9190854
    Abstract: A power management unit accurately measures and controls charging current. The power management unit may be implemented more efficiently than prior designs, leading to cost savings in the implementation of the power management unit as well as in the implementation of the device that incorporates the power management unit. The power management unit incorporates a model of an external charge control device (e.g., a transistor) and uses that model in a way that allows the power management unit to eliminate external device pins and other circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Kerry Thompson, John McNitt, Mark Rutherford
  • Publication number: 20130335035
    Abstract: A power management unit accurately measures and controls charging current. The power management unit may be implemented more efficiently than prior designs, leading to cost savings in the implementation of the power management unit as well as in the implementation of the device that incorporates the power management unit. The power management unit incorporates a model of an external charge control device (e.g., a transistor) and uses that model in a way that allows the power management unit to eliminate external device pins and other circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Kerry Thompson, John McNitt, Mark Rutherford
  • Publication number: 20050024125
    Abstract: The highly efficient, high current drive, multi-phase voltage multiplier reduces the inefficiency due to the active level overlapping portion of the clock at high frequencies, reduces the inefficiency due to extremely large drive currents on the inverters supplying current to the multiplying capacitors C1(*) and C2(*), and increases the efficiency of the multiplier by allowing M-1 phases to charge the output at any given time and providing more time given to each capacitor to fully charge and discharge. The ripple on the output is much smaller than in a single dual phase multiplier. This multi-phase voltage multiplier supplies very large current to the load while remaining very efficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: John McNitt, Russell Radke
  • Publication number: 20050024063
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for measuring high speed glitch energy between first and second. The method and apparatus induce a change in charge on the first node from a first charge level to a second charge level with glitch energy supplied by the second node. An amount of charge is then supplied to the first node to restore the charge on the first node from the second charge level toward the first charge level. A representation of the amount of charge supplied to the first node is measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Applicant: LSI Logic Corporation
    Inventors: John McNitt, Scott Savage
  • Patent number: 6567536
    Abstract: An analysis system and method for providing athletic training and instruction by sensing different types of information, such as video, positional information, weight transfer information etc and synchronizing the information. The synchronized information is replayed for the user in a manner that enables simultaneous viewing of an athletic motion along with calculations and presentation of analysis information related to the athletic motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Golftec Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Michael John McNitt, Jeffrey Jack Parks, David Arthur Erb
  • Patent number: 6537076
    Abstract: An analysis system and method for providing athletic training and instruction by sensing different types of information, such as video, positional information, weight transfer information during a training session and storing the information to a lesson file. The method and system displays video information simultaneously with positional measurement information related to that is synchronized with the video information. Additionally, the displays are controlled using a single control element, or group of control elements. Moreover, the fact as to whether the displayed information is synchronized is automatically detected so as to link corresponding control elements together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Golftec Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Michael John McNitt, Jeffrey Jack Parks
  • Publication number: 20020114493
    Abstract: An analysis system and method for providing athletic training and instruction by sensing different types of information, such as video, positional information, weight transfer information etc and synchronizing the information. The synchronized information is replayed for the user in a manner that enables simultaneous viewing of an athletic motion along with calculations and presentation of analysis information related to the athletic motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Applicant: GolfTEC, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John McNitt, Jeffrey Jack Parks
  • Publication number: 20020115046
    Abstract: An analysis system and method for providing athletic training and instruction by sensing different types of information, such as video, positional information, weight transfer information during a training session and storing the information to a lesson file. The method and system displays video information simultaneously with positional measurement information related to that is synchronized with the video information. Additionally, the displays are controlled using a single control element, or group of control elements. Moreover, the fact as to whether the displayed information is synchronized is automatically detected so as to link corresponding control elements together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Applicant: GolfTEC, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John McNitt, Jeffrey Jack Parks
  • Publication number: 20020115047
    Abstract: An analysis system and method for providing athletic training and instruction by sensing different types of information, such as video, positional information, weight transfer information during a training session and storing the information to a lesson file. The method and system marks portions of sensed information contemporaneously during the training session. Contemporaneous marking allows for saving of only pertinent information to lesson file without the need to review an entire lesson to generate the lesson file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Applicant: GolfTEC, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John McNitt, Jeffrey Jack Parks
  • Patent number: 6424200
    Abstract: A termination impedance in a semiconductor circuit is trimmed to fall within a desired range by a trimming circuit such that the amount of variation in the termination impedance is less than the variation in the sheet rho (resistivity) of the semiconductor. An external reference resistor causes a reference current to flow in multiple branches of a current mirror circuit. One branch of the current mirror circuit has a resistance less than the reference resistor, another has a resistance approximately equal to the reference resistor, and another has resistance greater than the reference resistor. Variation in the sheet rho results voltage drops across the resistor in variation in the resistor values. A logic circuit detects the variations, and encodes a control signal. The control signal is received by a variable termination circuit that switches parallel resistance branches in or out of the termination impedance circuit such that an effective termination impedance is selected based upon the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: LSI Logic Corporation
    Inventors: John McNitt, Brett Hardy