Patents by Inventor John Robert Burger

John Robert Burger 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: 7242599
    Abstract: A content-addressable memory stores a plurality of words, each word with intrinsic capability: Global bus-1 selects a set of bits in each word. Global bus-2 selects a disjoint set of bits in each word. Circuits approximately adiabatic in each word, toggle bus-2 bits if and only if all bus-1 bits are true. Toggling selectively, as above, will copy selected bits to new locations, and will calculate a given Boolean function on a given subset of bits. Each word, in parallel with other words, can thus accomplish any task that can be composed of bit-copying and Boolean operations. Every word systematically undergoes modification during each processing step without reading or writing to a global bus. This avoids an increase in processing time and loss of efficiency for global bus operations. Self-analyzing memory words support a programmable computer, massively parallel, logically reversible and approximately adiabatic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Inventor: John Robert Burger