Patents by Inventor Ronald Dane DeGroat

Ronald Dane DeGroat 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).

  • Dibit extraction
    Patent number: 7643238
    Abstract: A novel means for performing dibit extraction is presented. Any one of an unequalized signal dibit, equalized signal dibit, or noise dibit can be extracted. Instead of using the correlation properties of a PN (Pseudo-Noise) sequence to approximate a PN deconvolution sequence, the use of the actual deconvolution sequence (i.e., PN sequence that includes values of +k and 0, where k is oftentimes 1) is employed so that no approximations are needed. The resulting estimate of the channel is therefore very accurate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Ronald Dane DeGroat