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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2023

Filed:

Nov. 12, 2021
Applicant:

Arris Enterprises Llc, Suwanee, GA (US);

Inventors:

Joseph Petry, Philadelphia, PA (US);

Brian M. Carroll, Quakertown, PA (US);

Assignee:

ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC, Suwanee, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/00 (2006.01); H03K 5/01 (2006.01); H03K 19/20 (2006.01); H03K 17/96 (2006.01); H03K 17/945 (2006.01); H03K 17/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 5/01 (2013.01); H03K 17/22 (2013.01); H03K 17/945 (2013.01); H03K 17/96 (2013.01); H03K 17/962 (2013.01); H03K 19/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer readable media described herein can be operable to facilitate transitioning a device from a first state to a second state. A switch described herein allows for the use of an electronic circuit to perform the toggle and persistence functions while simultaneously giving more flexibility to the industrial design and physical switch implementation. The switch allows this preserving of the state using only a toggle on a voltage and thus allowing for a hardware only solution. The switch described herein allows for the use of smaller and less complicated mechanical switches allowing for more compact industrial designs. The switch uses a programmable voltage reference as a 1 bit non-volatile memory cell that is programmed by means of a logic pulse to the device. This allows a software independent setting of the state of the privacy switch. This state will remain through power cycles.


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