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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 14, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Francis A Galler, Norfolk, MA (US);
Assignee:
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364552 ; 3311 / ; 364480 ; 36457101 ;
Abstract
A negative resistance device local extremum seeking circuit including a negative resistance device (NRD) and a biasing device for providing a bias signal to operate the NRD. The output of the NRD is detected by a detector that provides a signal which indicates the position of the bias signal in relation to the peak of the NRD. A bias adjust circuit responsive to the detector adjusts the bias signal toward the peak of the NRD to operate it at the peak.