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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:
Dec. 12, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2004
Applicants:
Hong H. Chan, Portland, OR (US);
Jeffrey E. Smith, Portland, OR (US);
Inventors:
Hong H. Chan, Portland, OR (US);
Jeffrey E. Smith, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/175 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A pre-driverhas a data signal inputto receive a data signal, a pair of voltage inputsto receive supply voltages, and a data outputto provide an output voltage. A voltage clampis connected between a predetermined one of the voltage inputsand the data outputto clamp the output voltage with respect to the predetermined supply voltage. Other embodiments and methods are also described and claimed.