Patents by Inventor Kingsley W. Craft

Kingsley W. Craft 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: 4321706
    Abstract: A programmable phase-locked loop frequency synthesizer having a feedback path that includes a tuned discriminator circuit is frequency modulated by coupling a portion of the modulating signal into the feedback path to effect modulation at rates which exceed the bandwidth of the phase-locked loop and by utilizing a portion of the modulating signal to frequency modulate the phase-locked loop reference signal to effect modulation at rates within the bandwidth of the phase-locked loop. A digitally controlled phase shifter that forms a portion of the discriminator tuning circuits in effect divides the phase-locked loop tuning range into a series of relatively narrow centiguous frequency bands. Data, representing deviations in the discriminator characteristics for each of these frequency bands, are stored in an erasable programmable read only memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1982
    Assignee: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Kingsley W. Craft