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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. 20, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2003
Applicant:
Kevin W. Glass, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Inventor:
Kevin W. Glass, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 5/153 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having a threshold detector with a current comparator to determine if an input signal exceeds a threshold. The input signal may be obtained from a received optical signal and may be compared to a reference signal obtained from a hierarchical Schmitt trigger, in certain embodiments.