Patents by Inventor Yibin Yee

Yibin Yee 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: 7236005
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing majority voting is presented. The method selects pairs of inputs, performs AND and NOR operations on each pair of inputs to determine that each pair of inputs is both high or both low, yielding a quantity of “both high” pairs and a quantity of “both low” pairs, and compares the quantity of “both high” pairs against the quantity of “both low” pairs to determine the majority. The apparatus includes AND gates configured to receive pairs of values and NOR gates configured to receive the same pairs of values, with a connections between all AND gates and connections between all NOR gates. A summation element sums all AND gate outputs and all NOR gate outputs to determine the majority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yibin Yee, James W. Tschanz, Muhammad M. Khellah, Vivek K. De