Patents by Inventor Michel J. Lanfranca

Michel J. Lanfranca 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: 4805130
    Abstract: A circuit for performing operations on two bits (A,B), including the processing of a carry from a preceding circuit (CIN) and transmitting it to a subsequent circuit (COUT). The circuit includes a network which is formed by MOS transistors which can be programmed via programming lines and which supplies a logic combination. An exclusive carry-propagation-generation device is formed by three MOS transistors which are connected in series between a carry-propagation line and ground and whose gates are connected to one of the bits to be processed, to the logic combination, and to a carry inhibit line, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Michel J. Lanfranca, Jean-Michel J. Labrousse, Christian M. Deneuchatel
  • Patent number: 4780626
    Abstract: The invention relates to a logic MOS gate of the domino type, having a precharging transistor, a validation transistor and logic transistors. To prevent unwanted discharging of a precharged high level, which may be induced by at least one input data being stabilized too slowly, that is to say not before a clock signal has risen to the high level, a p-MOS sub-network is arranged in parallel with the source-drain path of the precharging transistor and receives at least the input data which was too slowly stabilized in such a manner as to establish a conductor path which reestablishes the precharged high level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1988
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Armand Guerin, Michel J. Lanfranca