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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:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
William C. Nunnally, Columbia, MO (US);
Assignee:
The Curators of the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/12 ;
Abstract
In the invention, an analog signal is converted to an optical deflection. In preferred embodiments, an N-bit parallel output is obtained. A particularly preferred embodiment patterns the light beam with a spatial filter into an N-bit binary light pattern that is then collected and sensed by optical detectors.