Patents by Inventor William D. Hopkins

William D. Hopkins 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: 4589099
    Abstract: An electronic system located upon a single semiconductor substrate including a plurality of isolated electronic subsystems located upon the semiconductor substrate. Each electronic subsystem includes a plurality of input/output lines. Several information bus lines are included that are connected to addressable transistors located between the individual bus lines and the input/output lines. An addressing means is connected to the addressable transistors for addressing each of the addressable transistors and for providing a first state signal indicating an ON condition to the first select group of said addressable transistors, electrically connecting the information bus lines to the input/output lines and a second state signal indicating an OFF condition to a second selected group of the addressable transistors, electrically isolating the information bus lines from the input/output lines. The addressable transistors maintain the state signal indicated condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: David S. Laffitte, William D. Hopkins, John W. Hayn, II