National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC

Sean Yen

Paul Charles Galambos

Anthony L Lentine

Brent T Meyer

Keith Ortiz

Gwendolyn Hummel

Robin B Jacobs-Gedrim

Gilbert V Herrera

Michael David Henry

Benjamin Griffin

Travis Ryan Young

Michael Wiwi

Brian D Homeijer

Robert William Reger

Bryson Barney

Andrew Ian Young

A maze-based switch generally having three functional blocks is disclosed. The first functional block handles communications by accepting an entered maze pattern from an external system controller and outputting the entered maze pattern (and optionally its directional complement) to the second functional block. The second functional block stores the maze pattern (and optionally its directional complement) to a permanent storage element and outputs the stored, entered maze pattern and its directional complement to a series of transistors in the third functional block. The third functional block is an electronic maze in which a correct maze pattern and its directional complement must be received by the transistors for the transistors to pass electrical power through the electronic maze to a connected element. The third functional block may alternatively be implemented with optical elements, optoelectronic elements, microelectromechanical elements, or elements formed by other microsystem technologies.

Solid-state information pattern discriminating switch

There is provided a near-zero-power wakeup system in which a MEMS sensor for mechanical or acoustic signals is coupled to a very-low-power complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). Power consumption can be minimized by operating the ASIC with sub-threshold gate voltages.

Low-power MEMS wakeup system

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Sean Yen