Patents by Inventor Louis Crouse Muller

Louis Crouse Muller 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).

  • Automated state machine extraction for rapid-single flux-quantum circuits
    Patent number: 9710586
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for extracting a state machine representation of a digital logic superconductive circuit from an alphanumeric representation of the circuit. The alphanumeric representation typically specifies circuit components including inductive elements, their interconnectivity and input and output nodes. The method according to the invention comprising the steps of simulating the circuit in a suitable software environment utilizing the alphanumeric representation; identifying inductive loops in the circuit; identifying inductive loops in the circuit capable of storing one or more magnetic fluxons and discarding all others; and extracting the state machine representation, using only the inductive loops in the circuit capable of storing magnetic fluxons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Stellenbosch University
    Inventors: Louis Crouse Muller, Coenrad Johann Fourie
  • AUTOMATED STATE MACHINE EXTRACTION FOR RAPID-SINGLE FLUX-QUANTUM CIRCUITS
    Publication number: 20150178432
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for extracting a state machine representation of a digital logic superconductive circuit from an alphanumeric representation of the circuit. The alphanumeric representation typically specifies circuit components including inductive elements, their interconnectivity and input and output nodes. The method according to the invention comprising the steps of simulating the circuit in a suitable software environment utilising the alphanumeric representation; identifying inductive loops in the circuit; identifying inductive loops in the circuit capable of storing one or more magnetic fluxons and discarding all others; and extracting the state machine representation, using only the inductive loops in the circuit capable of storing magnetic fluxons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Louis Crouse Muller, Coenrad Johann Fourie