SCHWEGMAN, LUNDBERG & WOESSNER / ATMEL

MINNEAPOLIS, MN US

1. 20110044114 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BIT LINES DISCHARGING AND SENSING 02-24-2011
2. 20110043482 ANISOTROPIC TOUCH SCREEN ELEMENT - touch sensitive position sensor for detecting the position of an object in two dimensions is described 02-24-2011
3. 20110043226 CAPACITIVE SENSOR - Method and apparatus are provided for a capacitive sensor 02-24-2011
4. 20110037705 TOUCH-SENSITIVE USER INTERFACE - includes a sensor element providing a plurality of sensing areas 02-17-2011
5. 20110037634 Device and Method for Scanning Multiple ADC Channels 02-17-2011
6. 20110037513 Controlling Bias Current for an Analog to Digital Converter 02-17-2011
7. 20110032019 LEVEL SHIFTER WITH OUTPUT LATCH - level shifter for a microcontroller shifts an input voltage in a first power domain to an output voltage level 02-10-2011
8. 20110029917 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SINGLE TOUCH ZOOM USING SPIRAL ROTATION 02-03-2011
9. 20110025639 ELECTRODE LAYOUT FOR TOUCH SCREENS - device includes a plurality of drive electrodes and a plurality of sense electrodes 02-03-2011
10. 20110023631 FORCE SENSOR WITH COMPRESSIBLE ELECTRODE 02-03-2011
11. 20110016167 RANDOMIZED MODULAR POLYNOMIAL REDUCTION METHOD AND HARDWARE THEREFOR 01-20-2011
12. 20110014747 STACKABLE PACKAGES FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PACKAGING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DICE 01-20-2011
13. 20110001708 SENSITIVITY CONTROL AS A FUNCTION OF TOUCH SHAPE 01-06-2011
14. 20110001215 MULTI-COMPONENT ELECTRONIC PACKAGE - electronic multi-component package is assembled by placing multiple electronic components within multiple openings 01-06-2011
15. 20100329059 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SENSE AMPLIFIERS 12-30-2010
16. 20100329023 SENSE AMPLIFIER APPARATUS AND METHODS - Some embodiments include apparatus and methods having a sense amplifier unit a supply node to receive a supply 12-30-2010
17. 20100328226 APPARATUS USING A DIFFERENTIAL ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER 12-30-2010
18. 20100315856 HIGH-DENSITY NON-VOLATILE READ-ONLY MEMORY ARRAYS AND RELATED METHODS 12-16-2010
19. 20100315855 ROM ARRAY WITH SHARED BIT-LINES - Electronic apparatus methods of forming the electronic apparatus and methods of operating the electronic apparatus 12-16-2010
20. 20100301879 CAPACITIVE SENSOR WITH ADDITIONAL ELECTRODE 12-02-2010
21. 20100289754 TWO-DIMENSIONAL TOUCH SENSORS - touch sensor, as well as providing touch position data, additional data is provided on the shape of the touch 11-18-2010
22. 20100287389 SINGLE CHIP MICROCONTROLLER INCLUDING BATTERY MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION 11-11-2010
23. 20100283651 CYCLIC DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTER - Some embodiments include apparatus and methods having an amplifier a capacitor network coupled to the amplifier 11-11-2010
24. 20100277841 THRESHOLD VOLTAGE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESD PROTECTION 11-04-2010
25. 20100271330 TOUCH SCREEN ELEMENT - capacitive two-dimensional touch panel has three sets of interleaved electrodes 10-28-2010
26. 20100263922 SURFACE MOUNTING CHIP CARRIER MODULE - device includes a carrier and an integrated circuit chip having a first side supported by the carrier and a 10-21-2010
27. 20100258360 Two-Dimensional Position Sensor - two dimensional position sensor having a touch-sensitive panel defined by a single-layer electrode pattern arranged on 10-14-2010
28. 20100250904 METHODS AND PROCESSOR-RELATED MEDIA TO PERFORM RAPID RETURNS FROM SUBROUTINES IN MICROPROCESSORS AND MICROCONTROLLERS 09-30-2010
29. 20100246282 VOLTAGE GENERATOR FOR MEMORY ARRAY - high voltage may be generated for programming memory cells in a memory array 09-30-2010
30. 20100225009 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT ASSEMBLIES WITH ALIGNMENT FEATURES AND DEVICES AND METHODS RELATED THERETO 09-09-2010
31. 20100224981 ROUTABLE ARRAY METAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PACKAGE 09-09-2010
32. 20100224684 SMART CARD READER - card reader receives an indication that a device has been plugged into a socket of the card reader 09-09-2010
33. 20100223476 SINGLE PIN COMMUNICATION MECHANISM - method and device include a power pin, a ground pin, and a communications pin 09-02-2010
34. 20100219846 Capacitive Sensing - multi-channel capacitive sensor for measuring the capacitances of a plurality of sense electrodes to a system reference potential 09-02-2010
35. 20100219845 Method and Apparatus for Sensing - apparatus for sensing a change in capacitance of a sensing electrode to a system ground such as that which may be 09-02-2010
36. 20100214259 SENSOR AND METHOD OF SENSING - sensor is arranged to determine the presence of an object from a change in a capacitance of a sensing element 08-26-2010
37. 20100208539 VOLTAGE REGULATOR FOR MEMORY - circuit includes a first negative feed back loop coupled to a virtual Vvdd power rail and a true Vdd power rail 08-19-2010
38. 20100208505 ANTI-CROSS-TALK CIRCUITRY FOR ROM ARRAYS 08-19-2010
39. 20100200309 TWO-DIMENSIONAL POSITION SENSOR - sensor for determining a position of an object in two dimensions is provided 08-12-2010
40. 20100193258 TWO-DIMENSIONAL TOUCH PANEL - capacitive touch panel is provided capable of detecting multiple simultaneous touches 08-05-2010
41. 20100188049 CURRENT TO FREQUENCY CONVERSION, APPARATUS AND METHODS 07-29-2010
42. 20100172113 METHODS FOR FORMING PACKAGED PRODUCTS - apparatus and methods for packaging semiconductor devices are disclosed 07-08-2010
43. 20100164889 MULTIPLE ELECTRODE TOUCH SENSITIVE DEVICE 07-01-2010
44. 20100149896 SENSE AMPLIFIER - comprises a first cascode transistor a second cascode transistor a first feedback circuit 06-17-2010
45. 20100149710 SNAP-BACK TOLERANT INTEGRATED CIRCUITS - method and a circuit for preventing snap-back current in NMOS transistors of MOS integrated circuits are 06-17-2010
46. 20100141277 CAPACITIVE POSITION SENSOR - Methods and apparatus related to a sensor are discussed herein 06-10-2010
47. 20100139991 Noise Reduction in Capacitive Touch Sensors 06-10-2010
48. 20100123670 Touch Screen Sensor - two-dimensional touch sensor comprising a plurality of electrodes arranged in a mesh pattern on a substrate 05-20-2010
49. 20100122097 COMMAND DECODER FOR MICROCONTROLLER BASED FLASH MEMORY DIGITAL CONTROLLER SYSTEM 05-13-2010
50. 20100097346 CAPACITIVE TOUCH BUTTONS COMBINED WITH ELECTROLUMINESCENT LIGHTING 04-22-2010
51. 20100097342 Multi-Touch Tracking - method of tracking multiple touches over time on a touch sensor, for example a capacitive touch screen 04-22-2010
52. 20100097329 Touch Position Finding Method and Apparatus 04-22-2010
53. 20100097328 Touch Finding Method and Apparatus - method of determining touches from a data set output from a touch screen comprising an array of sensing nodes 04-22-2010
54. 20100097133 Signal Processing - iterative method for generating a series of output signal values from a series of input signal values is described 04-22-2010
55. 20100097078 Noise Handling in Capacitive Touch Sensors 04-22-2010
56. 20100097077 SENSOR AND METHOD OF SENSING - touch sensor senses the presence of an object at one of a plurality of channels on a surface of the touch sensor 04-22-2010
57. 20100096193 CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSORS - touch data set is acquired via signals from each sensing node in a capacitive sensor array having a plurality of sensing 04-22-2010
58. 20100085327 CAPACITIVE MATRIX TOUCH SENSOR - device includes a substrate a top touch panel and an electrode supported by the substrate including a conductive 04-08-2010
59. 20100085091 PROPORTIONAL PHASE COMPARATOR AND METHOD FOR PHASE-ALIGNING DIGITAL SIGNALS 04-08-2010
60. 20100076742 SIMULATION MODEL FOR TRANSISTORS - Various embodiments include methods and apparatus for simulating a transistor using a simulation model that includes 03-25-2010
61. 20100074030 ADAPTIVE REGULATOR FOR IDLE STATE IN A CHARGE PUMP CIRCUIT OF A MEMORY DEVICE 03-25-2010
62. 20100064173 MECHANISM FOR STORING AND EXTRACTING TRACE INFORMATION USING INTERNAL MEMORY IN MICRO CONTROLLERS 03-11-2010
63. 20100064083 COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE WITHOUT PASSIVE PULLUP COMPONENTS 03-11-2010
64. 20100061152 METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ACCESS MEMORY - This document discusses among other things, a system comprising a host controller, an Input/Output buffer, and a 03-11-2010
65. 20100057960 SECURE INFORMATION PROCESSING - Apparatus systems and methods may operate to receive from a requesting device 03-04-2010
66. 20100051343 METHOD FOR FORMING AN INTEGRAL ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION SHIELD IN AN ELECTRONIC PACKAGE 03-04-2010
67. 20100045632 Capacitive Position Sensor - has a two-layer electrode structure 02-25-2010
68. 20100044122 Capacitive Touch Screen with Noise Suppression 02-25-2010
69. 20100023572 RANDOMIZED MODULAR POLYNOMIAL REDUCTION METHOD AND HARDWARE THEREFOR 01-28-2010
70. 20100019349 METHOD FOR FABRICATING CONDUCTING PLATES FOR A HIGH-Q MIM CAPACITOR 01-28-2010
71. 20100017563 MICROCONTROLLER BASED FLASH MEMORY DIGITAL CONTROLLER SYSTEM 01-21-2010
72. 20100014370 PRECHARGE AND EVALUATION PHASE CIRCUITS FOR SENSE AMPLIFIERS 01-21-2010
73. 20100014354 USE OF RECOVERY TRANSISTORS DURING WRITE OPERATIONS TO PREVENT DISTURBANCE OF UNSELECTED CELLS 01-21-2010
74. 20100001812 Mode Switching RC Network - Various embodiments include apparatus systems and methods having a conductive contact configured to couple to a 01-07-2010
75. 20090327709 MEMORY ADDRESS OBFUSCATION - Apparatus systems and methods may operate to provide 12-31-2009
76. 20090319760 SINGLE-CYCLE LOW POWER CPU ARCHITECTURE - n architecture for implementing an instruction pipeline within a CPU comprises an arithmetic logic unit 12-24-2009
77. 20090303769 ROM ARRAY WITH SHARED BIT-LINES - Electronic apparatus methods of forming the electronic apparatus and methods of operating the electronic apparatus 12-10-2009
78. 20090303203 CAPACITIVE SENSING WITH LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE REDUCTION 12-10-2009
79. 20090303198 CAPACITIVE SENSING WITH HIGH-FREQUENCY NOISE REDUCTION 12-10-2009
80. 20090302449 PACKAGED PRODUCTS, INCLUDING STACKED PACKAGE MODULES, AND METHODS OF FORMING SAME 12-10-2009
81. 20090302393 LOW RESISTANCE INTEGRATED MOS STRUCTURE - The present invention is related to a metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor having a symmetrical 12-10-2009
82. 20090295447 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR A HIGH-VOLTAGE LATCH 12-03-2009
83. 20090294957 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INCREASING THE QUANTITY OF DISCRETE ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PACKAGE 12-03-2009
84. 20090290424 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROGRAM PULSE GENERATION DURING PROGRAMMING OF NONVOLATILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES 11-26-2009
85. 20090287896 OFF-CHIP MICRO CONTROL AND INTERFACE IN A MULTICHIP INTEGRATED MEMORY SYSTEM 11-19-2009
86. 20090284296 SELECTABLE DELAY PULSE GENERATOR - programmable pulse generator having a clock signal delay chain, multiplexer, and reduced voltage charge circuit 11-19-2009
87. 20090278124 SCRIBE BASED BOND PADS FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS 11-12-2009
88. 20090273883 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCORPORATING HIGH VOLTAGE DEVICES IN AN EEPROM 11-05-2009
89. 20090273571 Gesture Recognition - state machine gesture recognition algorithm for interpreting streams of coordinates received from a touch sensor 11-05-2009
90. 20090271536 DESCRIPTOR INTEGRITY CHECKING IN A DMA CONTROLLER 10-29-2009
91. 20090265410 Packed add-subtract operation in a microprocessor 10-22-2009
92. 20090258478 METHOD FOR PROVIDING A NANOSCALE, HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTOR (HEMT) ON INSULATOR 10-15-2009
93. 20090248771 TRUE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR - True random number generation circuitry utilizes a pair of oscillators driving a pair of linear feedback shift registers 10-01-2009
94. 20090240843 APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A USB HOST - multi-interface integrated circuit comprises a plurality of transistors, and a level detection block 09-24-2009
95. 20090238016 CIRCUITS TO DELAY SIGNALS FROM A MEMORY DEVICE 09-24-2009
96. 20090216926 APPARATUS TO IMPROVE BANDWIDTH FOR CIRCUITS HAVING MULTIPLE MEMORY CONTROLLERS 08-27-2009
97. 20090210774 ERROR DETECTING/CORRECTING SCHEME FOR MEMORIES 08-20-2009
98. 20090206452 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING SELF-ALIGNED TWIN WELLS WITH CO-PLANAR SURFACES IN A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE 08-20-2009
99. 20090168586 CIRCUIT TO CONTROL VOLTAGE RAMP RATE - programming circuit and method to apply a controlled or predetermined voltage pulse for charge transfer to or 07-02-2009
100. 20090166898 Method of increasing reliability of packaged semiconductor integrated circuit dice 07-02-2009
101. 20090161429 DYNAMIC COLUMN REDUNDANCY REPLACEMENT - system for programming and reading a non-volatile memory system includes an input data replacement logic block 06-25-2009
102. 20090153232 Low voltage charge pump - single pump stage of a multi-stage charge pump couples a first low-voltage NMOS transistor in series with a first low-voltage 06-18-2009
103. 20090122913 System and method for controlling modulation 05-14-2009
104. 20090109754 NON-VOLATILE MEMORY ARRAY ARCHITECTURE WITH JOINED WORD LINES 04-30-2009
105. 20090096532 DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIER WITH SINGLE ENDED OUTPUT 04-16-2009
106. 20090096501 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING SNAP BACK IN INTEGRATED CIRCUITS 04-16-2009
107. 20090086541 COLUMN REDUNDANCY RAM FOR DYNAMIC BIT REPLACEMENT IN FLASH MEMORY 04-02-2009
108. 20090077409 CIRCUITS TO DELAY A SIGNAL FROM A MEMORY DEVICE 03-19-2009
109. 20090073283 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING IMAGES 03-19-2009
110. 20090058697 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MINIMIZING THE ACCUMULATED OFFSET ERROR FOR AN ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER 03-05-2009
111. 20090058459 AUTO-TRIM CIRCUIT - that sets trim bits for an integrated circuit includes a coarse bit calibration circuit for determining a first portion of the trim 03-05-2009
112. 20090040825 NOVEL ROW REDUNDANCY SCHEME IN A MULTICHIP INTEGRATED MEMORY 02-12-2009
113. 20090033391 CIRCUITS TO DELAY A SIGNAL FROM A MEMORY DEVICE 02-05-2009
114. 20090019207 DUAL BUS MATRIX ARCHITECTURE FOR MICRO-CONTROLLERS 01-15-2009
115. 20090013190 SECURE MEMORY DEVICE FOR SMART CARDS - secure memory device which can be used for multi-application smart cards for secure identification in data 01-08-2009
116. 20090010083 CLOCK CIRCUITRY FOR DDR-SDRAM MEMORY CONTROLLER 01-08-2009
117. 20080315848 VOLTAGE REGULATOR FOR AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT 12-25-2008
118. 20080313582 Accurate Transistor Modeling - method and system for generating transistor models 12-18-2008
119. 20080310232 ERASE VERIFY FOR MEMORY DEVICES - Various embodiments include memory devices and methods having first memory cells and second memory cells coupled to 12-18-2008
120. 20080309269 MICROCONTROLLER INTERFACE WITH HALL ELEMENT 12-18-2008
121. 20080304191 THRESHOLD VOLTAGE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESD PROTECTION 12-11-2008
122. 20080298385 DEVICE AND METHOD OF SUPPLYING POWER TO TARGETS ON SINGLE-WIRE INTERFACE 12-04-2008
123. 20080290955 LOW COST AND LOW VARIATION OSCILLATOR - oscillator circuit for use in integrated circuits 11-27-2008
124. 20080290930 LOW VOLTAGE CHARGE PUMP - single pump stage of a multi-stage charge pump couples a first low-voltage NMOS transistor in series with a first low-voltage 11-27-2008
125. 20080290904 Frequency Monitor - method and system for monitoring a frequency of a clock signal is disclosed 11-27-2008
126. 20080290426 DMOS DEVICE WITH SEALED CHANNEL PROCESSING 11-27-2008
127. 20080286967 METHOD FOR FABRICATING A BODY TO SUBSTRATE CONTACT OR TOPSIDE SUBSTRATE CONTACT IN SILICON-ON-INSULATOR DEVICES 11-20-2008
128. 20080285326 HIGH DENSITY NON-VOLATILE MEMORY ARRAY - high-density non-volatile memory array 11-20-2008
129. 20080280439 OPTIMAL CONCENTRATION OF PLATINUM IN A NICKEL FILM TO FORM AND STABILIZE NICKEL MONOSILICIDE IN A MICROELECTRONIC DEVICE 11-13-2008
130. 20080279320 BI-DIRECTIONAL SINGLE WIRE INTERFACE - single-wire bi-directional communication protocol is provided in which the sending device transmits its clock 11-13-2008
131. 20080278874 ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE (ESD) PROTECTION STRUCTURE AND A CIRCUIT USING THE SAME 11-13-2008
132. 20080272720 ACCURATE MOTOR SPEED CONTROL - method of and system for controlling a brushless direct current motor includes providing with a lookup table a 11-06-2008
133. 20080270667 SERIALIZATION OF DATA FOR COMMUNICATION WITH MASTER IN MULTI-CHIP BUS IMPLEMENTATION 10-30-2008
134. 20080270656 SERIALIZATION OF DATA FOR COMMUNICATION WITH DIFFERENT-PROTOCOL SLAVE IN MULTI-CHIP BUS IMPLEMENTATION 10-30-2008
135. 20080270655 SERIALIZATION OF DATA FOR COMMUNICATION WITH SLAVE IN MULTI-CHIP BUS IMPLEMENTATION 10-30-2008
136. 20080270650 SERIALIZATION OF DATA FOR MULTI-CHIP BUS IMPLEMENTATION 10-30-2008
137. 20080266982 CHANNEL DISCHARGING AFTER ERASING FLASH MEMORY DEVICES 10-30-2008
138. 20080266301 DISPLAY CONTROLLER OPERATING MODE USING MULTIPLE DATA BUFFERS 10-30-2008
139. 20080266001 DUAL REFERENCE PHASE TRACKING PHASE-LOCKED LOOP 10-30-2008
140. 20080259712 FAST READ PORT FOR REGISTER FILE - Separate read and write ports in a memory system allow simultaneous access to a memory cell array by read and write 10-23-2008
141. 20080253207 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING THE FUNCTIONALITY OF A PAGE DECODER 10-16-2008
142. 20080252339 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SYNCHRONOUS CLOCK SIGNALS FROM A COMMON CLOCK SIGNAL 10-16-2008
143. 20080250191 FLEXIBLE, LOW COST APPARATUS AND METHOD TO INTRODUCE AND CHECK ALGORITHM MODIFICATIONS IN A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY 10-09-2008
144. 20080246746 DISPLAY CONTROLLER BLINKING MODE CIRCUITRY FOR LCD PANEL OF TWISTED NEMATIC TYPE 10-09-2008
145. 20080246504 APPARATUS AND METHOD TO MANAGE EXTERNAL VOLTAGE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY TESTING WITH SERIAL INTERFACE 10-09-2008
146. 20080244131 ARCHITECTURE FOR CONFIGURABLE BUS ARBITRATION IN MULTIBUS SYSTEMS WITH CUSTOMIZABLE MASTER AND SLAVE CIRCUITS 10-02-2008
147. 20080238753 PIPELINED ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER HAVING A POWER OPTIMIZED PROGRAMMABLE DATA RATE 10-02-2008
148. 20080237716 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT STRUCTURES HAVING A BORON ETCH-STOP LAYER AND METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS RELATED THERETO 10-02-2008
149. 20080233703 POLYSILICON CONDUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT IN A SALICIDE PROCESS TECHNOLOGY 09-25-2008
150. 20080232169 NAND-LIKE MEMORY ARRAY EMPLOYING HIGH-DENSITY NOR-LIKE MEMORY DEVICES 09-25-2008
151. 20080226064 CHINESE REMAINDER THEOREM - BASED COMPUTATION METHOD FOR CRYPTOSYSTEMS 09-18-2008
152. 20080218755 SEMICONDUCTOR UV ABSORPTIVE PHOTOMETRIC CELLS 09-11-2008
153. 20080218152 METHOD FOR CURRENT SENSING IN SWITCHED DC-TO-DC CONVERTERS 09-11-2008
154. 20080203974 SOFT TRANSITION FROM CONSTANT-CURRENT TO A CONSTANT-VOLTAGE MODE IN A BATTERY CHARGER 08-28-2008
155. 20080201623 EMBEDDED ARCHITECTURE WITH SERIAL INTERFACE FOR TESTING FLASH MEMORIES 08-21-2008
156. 20080201088 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A PROCESS 08-21-2008