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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:
Jul. 07, 1992
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Edward A Burton, Lindon, UT (US);
Assignee:
North American Philips Corporation, Signetics Division, Sunnydale, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
307480 ; 307443 ; 307446 ;
Abstract
In a memory element comprising interconnected logic gates with field effect transistors metastable states are to be avoided. The device's immunity against staying in metastable states is considerably raised by coupling a supply terminal of each logic gate to a power supply voltage via a base-emitter path of a bipolar transistor that has its collector coupled to the logic gate's output.