Patents by Inventor William Ronald Young

William Ronald Young 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).

  • Silicon-glass bonded wafers
    Patent number: 5994204
    Abstract: Semiconductor-on-glass integrated circuits may include photodetectors which are stimulated by backside light passing through the glass substrate; this provides information reception by optical communication. Bipolar and field effect transistors are shielded from the light by their buried layers. Further, LEDs integrated together with photodetectors permits all optical communication among glass substrate chips. Alternative uses of glass substrate include thermal isolation for efficient thermally regulated integrated circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: William Ronald Young, Anthony L. Rivoli
  • Digital down converter and method
    Patent number: 5757794
    Abstract: A digital down converter with a programmable mixing down frequency and a programmable extraction bandwidth uses a ROM based sin/cos generator plus a programmable high decimation filter followed by a gain compensating scaling multiplier and a fixed FIR filter. Output format options are also programmable, and programming commands are serially loaded into registers. Various components may be isolated for efficient testing and also subsystem operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventor: William Ronald Young
  • Silicon-glass bonded wafers
    Patent number: 5729038
    Abstract: Semiconductor-on-glass integrated circuits may include photodetectors which are stimulated by backside light passing through the glass substrate; this provides information reception by optical communication. Bipolar and field effect transistors are shielded from the light by their buried layers. Further, LEDs integrated together with photodetectors permits all optical communication among glass substrate chips. Alternative uses of glass substrate include thermal isolation for efficient thermally regulated integrated circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: William Ronald Young, Anthony L. Rivoli
  • Sense amplifier for a multiport memory and method
    Patent number: 5650971
    Abstract: Integrated circuit memory with bitlines which cross each other in multiple place for symmetric capacitives coupling. Also read only memory with differential sense amplifier with an input to each half array of cells. Bits are stored complementarily in the two halves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Charles William Tull Longway, William Ronald Young