Patents by Inventor Steven K. Kawahara

Steven K. Kawahara 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: 4489393
    Abstract: A monolithic convolver circuit making extensive use of "pipelined" architecture to ensure high speed by concurrency of processing, and having a repetitive stage to facilitate chip layout and manufacture. The circuit includes a multiplier and an adder in each stage. The adders produce a sequence of summation terms concurrently and include shift registers to move and accumulate the results of convolution. The adders produce only partial sums at each stage, to increase processing speed. Full computation of carries is deferred until the very end, and performed in a separate conditional sum adder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1984
    Assignee: TRW Inc.
    Inventors: Steven K. Kawahara, James G. Peterson