Patents by Inventor Steven Brian SHAUCK

Steven Brian SHAUCK 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: 10083148
    Abstract: One embodiment describes a reciprocal quantum logic (RQL) receiver system. The RQL system is configured to convert a serial input data stream provided from a serial data transmitter into an RQL data stream. The RQL receiver system includes a sampling controller configured to oversample the serial input data stream via a plurality of samples over each sampling window of an RQL clock signal to determine a transition sample corresponding to a transition in a digital value of the serial input data stream in a given one sampling window of the RQL clock signal. The RQL receiver system can be further configured to capture the digital value of the serial input data stream via a capture sample that is a predetermined number of samples subsequent to the transition sample in each sampling window of the RQL clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Steven Brian Shauck
  • Patent number: 10073677
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to mixed-radix carry-lookahead adders and methods performed thereby. The mixed-radix carry-lookahead adder includes an multiple carry-lookahead stages, where each stage may be of a different radix. Each stage operates on input bits, creating and implementing propagate and generate signals for each bit. The carry-lookahead stages also compute an XOR of the inputs that is forwarded to a final carry-lookahead stage. The elements of the initial and subsequent carry-lookahead stages are arranged such that each of the propagate and generate output signals passes through a minimal number of passive transmission lines. The final stage of the mixed-radix carry-lookahead adder includes an XOR logic gate configured to receive the generate output from an intermediate carry-lookahead stage and XOR the generate output received from the intermediate carry-lookahead stage with the computed XOR signal forwarded from the initial carry-lookahead stage to produce a sum of the input bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Trent Josephsen, Steven Brian Shauck
  • Publication number: 20180024961
    Abstract: One embodiment describes a reciprocal quantum logic (RQL) receiver system. The RQL system is configured to convert a serial input data stream provided from a serial data transmitter into an RQL data stream. The RQL receiver system includes a sampling controller configured to oversample the serial input data stream via a plurality of samples over each sampling window of an RQL clock signal to determine a transition sample corresponding to a transition in a digital value of the serial input data stream in a given one sampling window of the RQL clock signal. The RQL receiver system can be further configured to capture the digital value of the serial input data stream via a capture sample that is a predetermined number of samples subsequent to the transition sample in each sampling window of the RQL clock signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: STEVEN BRIAN SHAUCK
  • Patent number: 9761305
    Abstract: One embodiment describes a quantum memory system. The system includes an array controller that comprises a plurality of flux pumps configured to provide write currents in a write operation and read currents in a read operation with respect to a plurality of quantum memory cells, the array controller being configured to control timing associated with the write operation and the read operation in response to memory request signals based on application of the write currents and the read currents and based on recharging flux associated with the plurality of flux pumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
    Inventors: William Robert Reohr, Steven Brian Shauck, Donald Lynn Miller, Jeremy William Horner, Nathan Trent Josephsen
  • Publication number: 20170229167
    Abstract: One embodiment describes a quantum memory system. The system includes an array controller that comprises a plurality of flux pumps configured to provide write currents in a write operation and read currents in a read operation with respect to a plurality of quantum memory cells, the array controller being configured to control timing associated with the write operation and the read operation in response to memory request signals based on application of the write currents and the read currents and based on recharging flux associated with the plurality of flux pumps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: WILLIAM ROBERT REOHR, STEVEN BRIAN SHAUCK, DONALD LYNN MILLER, JEREMY WILLIAM HORNER, NATHAN TRENT JOSEPHSEN
  • Publication number: 20160371058
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to mixed-radix carry-lookahead adders and methods performed thereby. The mixed-radix carry-lookahead adder includes an multiple carry-lookahead stages, where each stage may be of a different radix. Each stage operates on input bits, creating and implementing propagate and generate signals for each bit. The carry-lookahead stages also compute an XOR of the inputs that is forwarded to a final carry-lookahead stage. The elements of the initial and subsequent carry-lookahead stages are arranged such that each of the propagate and generate output signals passes through a minimal number of passive transmission lines. The final stage of the mixed-radix carry-lookahead adder includes an XOR logic gate configured to receive the generate output from an intermediate carry-lookahead stage and XOR the generate output received from the intermediate carry-lookahead stage with the computed XOR signal forwarded from the initial carry-lookahead stage to produce a sum of the input bits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Nathan Trent Josephsen, Steven Brian Shauck
  • Patent number: 9466643
    Abstract: One example includes a superconducting circuit. The circuit includes a plurality of layers comprising a first conductor layer and a second conductor layer overlying the first conductor layer, each of the first and second conductor layers comprising at least one signal element. The circuit also includes a ground grid that is conductively coupled to ground and comprises a first plurality of parallel ground lines that occupy the first conductor layer and extend in a first direction and a second plurality of parallel ground lines that occupy the second conductor layer and extend in a second direction that is orthogonal with respect to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Quentin P. Herr, Anna Y. Herr, Steven Brian Shauck, Eileen Jiwon Min
  • Patent number: 9384827
    Abstract: One embodiment describes a quantum memory system. The system includes a plurality of quantum memory cells arranged in an array of rows and columns. Each of the plurality of quantum memory cells can be configured to store a binary logic state in response to write currents in a write operation and configured to provide an indication of the binary logic state in response to read currents in a read operation. The system also includes an array controller comprising a plurality of flux pumps configured to provide the write currents and the read currents with respect to the rows and columns. The array controller can be configured to control timing associated with the write operation and the read operation in response to memory request signals based on application of the write currents and the read currents and based on recharging flux associated with the plurality of flux pumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
    Inventors: William Robert Reohr, Steven Brian Shauck, Donald Lynn Miller, Jeremy William Horner, Nathan Trent Josephsen
  • Publication number: 20160071903
    Abstract: One example includes a superconducting circuit. The circuit includes a plurality of layers comprising a first conductor layer and a second conductor layer overlying the first conductor layer, each of the first and second conductor layers comprising at least one signal element. The circuit also includes a ground grid that is conductively coupled to ground and comprises a first plurality of parallel ground lines that occupy the first conductor layer and extend in a first direction and a second plurality of parallel ground lines that occupy the second conductor layer and extend in a second direction that is orthogonal with respect to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Quentin P. HERR, Anna Y. HERR, Steven Brian SHAUCK, Eileen Jiwon MIN