Patents by Inventor Scott Markinson

Scott Markinson 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: 5008636
    Abstract: A clock generation circuit on each circuit board of a computer system and which removes board-to-board system skew in clock signal distribution. A phase-locked loop is employed to maintain synchronization between the system reference clock signal distributed to each board and the outputs of the distribution gate array in the generation circuit on each board. A 2X frequency clock is provided by combining the clock signal with a delayed version of itself. A second order loop is employed to monitor the duty cycle of the 2X frequency clock and to adjust the duty cycle of the regular frequency clock to provide cycle-to-cycle symmetry for the 2X frequency clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1991
    Assignee: Apollo Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Markinson, Michael Schuster, Thomas Hogan