G06F 1/0321
Waveform generators, i.e. devices for generating periodical functions of time
Official title: {Waveform generators, i.e. devices for generating periodical functions of time, e.g. direct digital synthesizers (G06F1/0314, G06F1/035 take precedence)}
G06F1/0321 (Waveform generators, i.e. devices for generating periodical functions of time) appears on 370 US grants and 203 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 9 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Signal control system and method for quantum computing, and waveform calibration circuit9 Jun 2026US 12,651,185 B2Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Direct digital synthesizer circuit, measurement system, and method of operating a direct digital synthesizer circuit21 Apr 2026US 12,608,036 B2Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co.KG
- Method and apparatus for managing waveform data and delays in a waveform generator6 Jan 2026US 12,514,553 B2STMicroelectronics S,r.l.
- Reduced controller loading and peripheral usage for displacement measurement device excitation6 Jan 2026US 12,517,844 B2Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
- Methods and apparatus to generate waveforms30 Dec 2025US 12,510,919 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Method and apparatus for managing waveform data and delays in a waveform generator26 Mar 2026US 2026/0083436 A1STMicroelectronics S,r.l.
- Methods and apparatus to generate waveforms26 Mar 2026US 2026/0086596 A1Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Sine wave generation based on a flexible pulse width modulation (pwm) technique11 Dec 2025US 2025/0377687 A1STMicroelectronics International N. V.
- Signal generation systems and methods for using same11 Dec 2025US 2025/0378761 A1Dedrone Holdings, Inc.
- Entropy based software clock recovery for real-equivalent-time oscilloscopes28 Aug 2025US 2025/0271500 A1Tektronix, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Modulation and demodulation of plural channels using analog and digital components124US 5,444,415 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1995
- Direct digital to analog microwave frequency signal simulator115US 5,764,087 AAAI Corporation · 1998
- High voltage, high efficiency sine wave generator with pre-set frequency and adjustable amplitude82US 9,910,453 B2Novocure GmbH · 2018
- Direct digital frequency synthesizer using sigma-delta techniques55US 5,563,535 AMicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. · 1996
- High speed, low power direct digital synthesizer51US 5,467,294 A1995