Cleversafe, Inc.

Sigmasense, Llc.

International Business Machines Corporation

Pure Storage, Inc.

Motorola Corporation

Athalonz, LLC

Broadcom Corporation

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Visa U.s.a. Inc.

Vixs Systems, Inc.

Sigmatel, Inc.

Admark Athletic Ventures

Xilinx, Inc.

Imageworks Interactive

Markison Patent Portal, Inc.

Timothy W Markison

Gary W Grube

Jason K Resch

Richard Stuart Seger, Jr

Daniel Keith Van Ostrand

S Christopher Gladwin

Greg R Dhuse

Gerald Dale Morrison

Wesley B Leggette

Ilya Volvovski

Patrick Troy Gray

Shayne X Short

Andrew D Baptist

Thomas Franklin Shirley, Jr

Manish Motwani

Michael Shawn Gray

Michael R Adair

Mathew A Rybicki

Kevin Joseph Derichs

Kumar Abhijeet

Ahmadreza Rofougaran

Ravi V Khadiwala

Yogesh Ramesh Vedpathak

Thomas Darrel Cocagne

John Christopher Price

Michael Colin Storm

Bruno Hennig Cabral

Matthew A Pendleton

Gary McCoy

Patricia Markison Healy

Phuong Huynh

Sayfe Kiaei

Patricia A Markison

Michael R May

Zachary J Mark

Michael David Cave

Sebastien Vas

Susan L Lukasik

Thomas E Weston

Jeremiah Johnston

H Spence Jackson

Michael A Margules

Gregg S Kodra

William C Black

Steven Mark Hoffman

Thomas W Becker

Alan E Holmes

Mike Barrett

John Moran

Jason A Trachewsky

Christopher J Hansen

Walter L Davis

Grant Howard McGibney

Michael H Retzer

Garry Joel Baum

Timothy D Taylor

Tyler Scott Harris

A pacemaker system includes a drive-sense circuit (DSC) operably coupled to a pacemaker lead. The DSC generates a pace signal including electrical impulses based on a reference signal. The DSC provides the pace signal via the pacemaker lead to an electrically responsive portion of a cardiac conductive system of a subject to facilitate cardiac operation of a cardiovascular system of the subject. The DSC senses, via the pacemaker lead, cardiac electrical activity of the cardiovascular system of the subject that is generated in response to the pace signal and electrically coupled into the pacemaker lead and generates a digital signal that is representative of the cardiac electrical activity of the cardiovascular system of the subject that is sensed via the pacemaker lead. The DSC provides digital information to one or more processing modules that includes and/or is coupled to memory and that provide the reference signal to the DSC.

Drive-sense circuit (DSC) serviced electrocardiogram (ECG) leads

A method includes storing a plurality of data in a storage system. A plurality of identifiers corresponding to the plurality of data is determined and the plurality of identifiers are stored in the storage system. A first set of integrity information corresponding to a first system storage level is generated for the plurality of data by performing a first set of cyclic redundancy checks and the first set of integrity information is stored in the storage system. A second set of integrity information corresponding to a second system storage level is generated for the plurality of data and the second set of integrity information is stored in the storage system.

Generating multiple sets of integrity information in a vast storage system

An organic and inorganic material test system includes at least one test container, a first and second set of electrodes embedded in the at least one test container, a set of transmit circuits coupled to the first set of electrodes, and a set of differential drive-sense circuits (DDSCs) coupled to the second set of electrodes. A first transmit circuit coupled to a first electrode is operable to produce a first transmit signal at a first frequency for transmission through contents of a first test container. A first DDSC coupled to a second electrode of the first test container includes a pair of drive-sense circuits (DSCs) and an output operational amplifier. The pair of DSCs are operable to generate receive signals at the first frequency. The output operational amplifier compares receive signals to produce a signal representative of the contents with respect to positioning of the first and second electrodes.

Organic and/or inorganic material test system using differential drive-sense circuits

A method for execution by one or more computing devices of a massive data ingestion system includes receiving data for storage in the massive data ingestion system. The method further includes storing a data segment of the data in a cache memory of the massive data ingestion system. The method further includes retrieving, based on one or more retrieval parameters, the data segment from the cache memory. The method further includes error encoding, in accordance with error encoding parameters, the data segment to produce a set of encoded data slices, wherein the error encoding parameters include a pillar width number and a decode threshold number, and wherein the decode threshold number is a minimum number of encoded data slices needed to reconstruct the data segment. The method further includes storing the set of encoded data slices in a set of storage units of the massive data ingestion system.

Ingesting and storing data in a massive data ingestion system

An apparatus includes a heel section, a mid-foot section, and a toe section. The heel section, the mid-foot section, and the toe section collectively have a geometric shape having a first slope of a polarity along an inner edge of the apparatus from the toe section to the heel section and a second slope of the polarity along the inner edge of the apparatus to an outer edge of the apparatus at the toe section.

Athletic positioning apparatus and applications thereof

A drive-sense circuit module includes at least one regulated source circuit coupled to a load, and to a loop correction circuit. The regulated source circuit generates a drive signal, which has a regulated characteristic and a controlled characteristic. At least one reference circuit applies a reference signal to the loop correction circuit that establishes a reference value of the controlled characteristic. The loop correction circuit senses an effect of one or more load characteristics on a sensed value of the controlled characteristic of the drive signal and generates a comparison signal based on the sensed value and the reference value of the controlled characteristic. A regulation signal is generated based on the comparison signal and used to regulate the regulated characteristic of the drive signal. A control module controls the regulated source circuit and the loop correction circuit to iterate through at least a first combination and a second combination of regulated characteristics and controlled characteristics.

Determining the effects of different electrical characteristics of a drive-sense circuit on a load

A defusing cell includes walls and spheroid elements. The walls are physically connected together to form a first perimeter, a second perimeter, and a hollow center region. A wall has a length and is an angle with respect to the first perimeter. The first perimeter is separated from the second perimeter by a distance based on the length and an angle of the wall. The second perimeter is larger than the first perimeter. The spheroid elements are arranged in a pattern to distribute and disperse an impact force impacting the defusing cell from the second perimeter with respect to the first perimeter.

Defusing cell for impact force defusion

A low voltage drive circuit includes a transmit digital to analog circuit that converts transmit digital data into analog outbound data by: generating a DC component; generating a first oscillation at a first frequency; generating a second oscillation at the first frequency; and outputting the first oscillation or the second oscillation on a bit-by-bit basis in accordance with the transmit digital data to produce an oscillating component, wherein the DC component is combined with the oscillating component to produce the analog outbound data, and wherein the oscillating component and the DC component are combined to produce the analog outbound data. A drive sense circuit drives an analog transmit signal onto a bus, wherein the analog outbound data is represented within the analog transmit signal as variances in loading of the bus at the first frequency and wherein analog inbound data is represented within an analog receive signal as variances in loading of the bus at a second frequency.

Low voltage drive circuit for transceiving analog data via a bus and methods for use therewith

A method for use in a touch-sensitive panel includes generating electric fields by applying drive signals to a plurality of row electrodes and a plurality of column electrodes included in the touch-sensitive panel, and sensing at least one information signal capacitively coupled to the touch-sensitive panel by detecting impedance changes associated with the plurality of row electrodes and the plurality of column electrodes. The impedance changes are converted to received data. Based on the received data a transmission pattern associated with the at least one information signal is determined. It is further determined that the transmission pattern corresponds to an identification code.

Touch sensitive panel supporting capacitively coupled identification code

A foot force detection system includes variable capacitors, drive sense circuits, a processing module, and a power unit. A drive sense circuit supplies a reference signal to the variable capacitor. It then generates a sensed signal regarding a characteristic of the variable capacitor based on the reference signal. It then converts the sensed signal into a digital signal. The processing module generates a digital impedance value for the variable capacitor based on the digital signal and writes the digital impedance value in memory. The power unit include a battery and a power harvesting circuit, where the battery and/or the power harvesting circuit provide power for the foot force detection system.

Power harvesting in a foot force detection system

A method includes determining, by a processing module of a foot force detection system, an athletic mode. The method further includes, when the athletic mode is active, determining, by the processing module, an athletic burst mode. The method further includes determining, by the processing module, a sampling rate for the foot force detection system based on the athletic burst mode for sampling foot force data.

Variable sampling rate within a foot force detection system

A foot force detection system includes first and second shoe force detection units. The first shoe force detection unit includes pressure sensors, a processing module, and a communication unit. The pressure sensors are operably coupled to produce first force data. The processing module is operably coupled to produce a first digital representation of the first force data. The second shoe force detection unit includes its own pressure sensors, a processing module, and a communication unit. The first and second shoe force detection units communicate with each other via the communication units.

Shoe to shoe communication within a foot force detection system

A touch screen display includes a plurality of electrodes configured to facilitate touch sense functionality based on electrode signals having a drive signal component and a receive signal component, a plurality of drive-sense circuits coupled to at least some of the plurality of electrodes to generate a plurality of sensed signals, and a processing module. The processing module is configured to cause the touch screen display to receive the plurality of sensed signals. A stream of capacitance image data associated with the plurality of cross points is generated based on the plurality of sensed signals. The stream of capacitance image data is processed to detect a touchless gesture.

Detection of touchless gestures based on capacitance image data

A capacitive touch screen display operates by: providing a display configured to render frames of data into visible images; providing a plurality of electrodes integrated into the display to facilitate touch sense functionality based on electrode signals having a drive signal component and a receive signal component; generating, via a plurality of drive-sense circuits coupled to at least some of the plurality of electrodes, a plurality of sensed signals; receiving the plurality of sensed signals; generating capacitance image data associated with the plurality of cross points that includes capacitance variation data corresponding to variations of the capacitance image data from a nominal value; and processing the capacitance image data to determine a touchless indication proximal to the touch screen display based on a touchless indication threshold.

Display with touchless indications and methods for use therewith

A method for comprises determining, for an interaction between a user computing device and the interactive computing device, an interaction type. The method further comprises determining a plurality of data types for supporting the interaction based on the interaction type. The method further comprises determining available communication types of a plurality of communication types for supporting the interaction. The method further comprises determining a first data type is restricted to transmitting via a screen to screen (STS) communication. The method further comprises determining a second data type of the plurality of data types is allowed for transmitting via a second communication type. When the available communication types include STS communication and the second communication type, facilitating execution of the interaction utilizing the STS communication for transmitting data having the first data type and utilizing the second communication type for data having the second data type.

Communicating data via a screen-to-screen connection based on data type

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