Donald C Archer

US Patent:

20130126970, May 23, 2013

Filed:

Nov 6, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/670330

Inventors:

NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION - Dallas TX, US
Sandeep Bahl - Palo Alto CA, US
William French - San Jose CA, US
Donald Archer - Santa Clara CA, US
David Courtney Parker - Topsham ME, US
Prasad Chaparala - Sunnyvale CA, US

Assignee:

NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION - Dallas TX

International Classification:

H01L 27/088

US Classification:

257335

Abstract:

A semiconductor structure, which serves as the core of a semiconductor fabrication platform, has a combination of empty-well regions and filled-well regions variously used by electronic elements, particularly insulated-gate field-effect transistors (“IGFETs”), to achieve desired electronic characteristics. A relatively small amount of semiconductor well dopant is near the top of an empty well. A considerable amount of semiconductor well dopant is near the top of a filled well. Some IGFETs (, and ) utilize empty wells (, and ) in achieving desired transistor characteristics. Other IGFETs (, and ) utilize filled wells (, and ) in achieving desired transistor characteristics. The combination of empty and filled wells enables the semiconductor fabrication platform to provide a wide variety of high-performance IGFETs from which circuit designers can select particular IGFETs for various analog and digital applications, including mixed-signal applications.

US Patent:

20160344558, Nov 24, 2016

Filed:

May 19, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/158832

Inventors:

Donald Gene Archer - Grand Prairie TX, US
Christopher Paul Linville - Euless TX, US
Kenneth Don West - Arlington TX, US

International Classification:

H04L 9/32
H04W 4/00
H04W 12/06
H04L 29/08

Abstract:

A system and method for obtaining real-time authorization. The system includes a customer located on a first device. An agent is located on a second device which is remote from the first device. An authorization hub connects the first device with the second device. A customer is provided with a message requesting authorization in the form of a signature. The customer provides the signature on the first device. Along with the signature, an authenticity identifier is collected from the first device. Thereafter, the agent is notified that the signature has been received by the authorization hub. In some examples, the agent can view the customer providing the signature in real-time.