Patents by Inventor William A. Pearce

William A. Pearce 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: 5809291
    Abstract: An extended PCI bus (100) accepts both standard 33 MHz (101-102) and extended 66 MHz (103-104) PCI I/O devices, and permits the intermixing and interoperability of both types of devices on the same bus. Each extended 66 MHz initiator device (103) includes a target memory (205) that is programmed at boot up to include a list of address ranges of all extended 66 MHz devices. Each extended 66 MHz device includes a clock multiplier (202) that generates an internal 66 MHz clock signal by doubling the 33 MHz bus clock frequency. This clock multiplier may be in the form of a simple edge detecting frequency doubler (FIG. 4), or a phase locked loop (FIG. 5) that can also provide for phase adjustments to alter the skew between the bus and internal clocks. To transfer data between two extended 66 MHz devices, an extended initiator device sends, during the address/control phase of the bus cycle, a fast read or write command to the extended target device over the C/BE lines of the bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Carlos Munoz-Bustamante, Jerry William Pearce
  • Patent number: 4443431
    Abstract: A vaccine affording protection against attachment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (N.g.) to human cells, and consequent infection, is prepared from a fragment of pili protein isolated from gonococci. This fragment contains the shared antigens between pili from different N.g., in an exposed form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1984
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Thomas M. Buchanan, William Pearce, Kirk C. S. Chen
  • Patent number: D300492
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Inventor: William A. Pearce
  • Patent number: D305972
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Inventor: William A. Pearce
  • Patent number: D402192
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Raymond C. Bell, Michael Christian Knodt, Michael Hung-Tai Luh, Eric Young Park, Douglas William Pearce, Ralph Albert Sagel, Shane Allen Schreck, Angelika Irene Schubert-Belle
  • Patent number: D402193
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Raymond C. Bell, Michael Christian Knodt, Michael Hung-Tai Luh, Eric Young Park, Douglas William Pearce, Ralph Albert Sagel, Shane Allen Schreck, Angelika Irene Schubert-Belle