Patents
Dr. David W. Matula

Patents Awarded:
18. “Arithmetic Processor Utilizing Multi-Table Look Up to Obtain
Reciprocal Operands", with W.S. Briggs, U.S. Patent #7,346,642, Mar. 2008
17. “Higher Radix Multiplier
with Simplified Partial Product Generator”, with P.M. Seidel and L.D. McFearin,
U.S. Patent #7,194,498,
Mar. 20, 2007.
16. "Apparatus and
Method for Minimizing Accumulated Rounding Errors in Coefficient Values in a
Lookup Table for Interpolating Polynomials", U.S. Patent #6, 978, 289, Dec.
2005.
15. "Apparatus and
Method for Providing Higher Radix Redundant Digit Lookup Tables for Recoding
and Compressing Function Values", with W. S. Briggs, U.S. Patent #6, 938, 062, Aug.
2005.
14. "Method and Apparatus for Performing
Division and Square Root Functions Using a Multiplier and a Multipartite Table", with C. Iordache, U.S.
Patent # 6,782,405,
Aug. 2004.
13. "Channel Assignment
Selection Reducing Call Blocking and Call Cutoff in a Cellular Communication
System", with C.Yang, U.S. Patent #5,896,573, April,
1999.
12. "Table Compression
Using Bipartite Tables", with D. Das Sarma, U.S. Patent #5,862,059, Jan. 1999.
11. "Early Detection of
Overflow and Exceptional Quotient/Remainder Pairs for Nonrestoring Twos Complement
Division", U.S. Patent # 5,675,528, Oct.
1997.
10. "Numeric Processor
Including a Multiply-Add Circuit for Computing a Succession of Product Sums
Using Redundant Values without Conversion to Nonredundant Format", with W.
S. Briggs, U.S. Patent #5,659,495,
Aug.1997.
9. "A Multilayered
Arrangement for Load Sharing in a Cellular Communications System",with C.
Yang, U.S. Patent #5,633,915,
May 1997.
8. "Early Signaling of
No-Overflow for Nonrestoring Twos Complement Division", U.S.Patent #5,615,113, March 1997.
7. "Method and Apparatus
for Prescaled Division", with W. S. Briggs, U.S. Patent #5, 475, 630,
Dec.1995.
6. "Method and Apparatus
for Performing Division Using a Rectangular Aspect Ratio Multiplier", with
W. S. Briggs, U. S. Patent #5,307,303, April
1994.
5. "Rectangular Array
Signed Digit Multiplier", with W. S. Briggs, U. S. Patent #5,184,318, Feb. 1993.
4. "Method and Apparatus
for Performing the Square Root Function Using a Rectangular Aspect Ratio
Multiplier", with W. S. Briggs and T. Brightman, U.S. Patent #5,159,566, Oct. 1992.
3. "Signed Digit
Multiplier", with W. S. Briggs, U.S. Patent #5,144,576, Sept.
1992.
2. "Method and Apparatus
for Performing the Square Root Function Using a Rectangular Aspect Ratio
Multiplier", with W. S. Briggs and T. Brightman, U.S. Patent #5,060,182, Oct. 1991.
1. "Method and Apparatus
for Performing Division Using a Rectangular Aspect Ratio Multiplier", W.
S. Briggs and T. Brightman, U.S. Patent #5,046,038, Sept.
1991.
Applications in Progress:
“Determining A Table
Output Of A Table Representing A Hierarchical Tree For An Integer Valued
Function” with A. Fit-Florea, L.Li, M.A. Thornton, US. Patent Application filed
August 2007
"Method and Apparatus for Interger Conversion Using the
Discrete Logarithm and Modular Factorization", with A. FitFlorea, U.S. Patent Application filed Sept.
2005
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