H03K 23/004
Counters counting in a non-natural counting order
Official title: {Counters counting in a non-natural counting order, e.g. random counters}
H03K23/004 (Counters counting in a non-natural counting order) appears on 121 US grants and 78 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Semiconductor device, method for controlling the semiconductor device, and control program16 Jun 2026US 12,659,615 B2Renesas Electronics Corporation
- Semiconductor integrated circuit, semiconductor device, and semiconductor memory device24 Feb 2026US 12,562,229 B2Kioxia Corporation
- Counter system and method of driving the counter system with zero accumulated error2 Sep 2025US 12,407,351 B2Mediatek Inc.
- Hierarchical statisically multiplexed counters and a method thereof18 Feb 2025US 12,231,124 B2Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
- Clock generating circuit11 Feb 2025US 12,222,748 B2Himax Imaging Limited
- Analog-to-digital converter with gray counter1 Jan 2026US 2026/0005700 A1ams Sensors Belgium BV
- Counter System and Method of Driving the Counter System with Zero Accumulated Error17 Jul 2025US 2025/0233593 A1Mediatek Inc.
- Codec system and its encoding circuit and decoding circuit12 Jun 2025US 2025/0192797 A1Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
- Semiconductor device, method for controlling the semiconductor device, and control program1 May 2025US 2025/0142228 A1Renesas Electronics Corporation
- Clock Generating Circuit10 Oct 2024US 2024/0338052 A1Himax Imaging Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Memory controller and method determining empty/full status of a FIFO memory using gray code counters75US 5,426,756 AS3 Incorporated · 1995
- Gray code counter36US 5,754,614 AVLSI Technology, Inc. · 1998
- Non-power-of-two grey-code counter system having binary incrementer with counts distributed with bilateral symmetry28US 6,337,893 B12002
- Method and system for gray-coding counting27US 6,937,172 B1Xilinx, Inc. · 2005
- Multi-channel control methods for switched power converters26US 6,912,139 B2Fyre Storm, Inc. · 2005