Patents by Inventor Mark Charles Wayland

Mark Charles Wayland 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).

  • Load isolation for pad signal monitoring
    Patent number: 9263107
    Abstract: A driver circuit includes an output driver including a plurality of output driver legs. The driver circuit further includes a duty cycle adjuster configured to adjust a duty cycle of a signal provided to the output driver. The driver circuit further includes an isolation module configured to isolate at least one output driver leg of the output driver legs from remaining output driver legs of the output driver legs. The driver circuit further includes a duty cycle monitor configured to monitor an output of the at least one output driver leg when the at least one output driver leg is isolated from the remaining output driver legs, and to provide the monitored output to the duty cycle adjuster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark Charles Wayland, Thomas Clark Bryan, Yu Huang, Michael Joseph Brunolli