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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>General Forum</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/13.aspx</link><description>The main Meeting Place for BeoWorld members, and the place for General Questions, Answers and things to say! 
If you have any questions about anything Bang &amp;amp; Olufsen related - please ask. If you have anything to say - please tell!</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 SP2 (Build: 31104.93)</generator><item><title>Off topic: Apple patents some kind of class-D amplifier</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/133814.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:58:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:133814</guid><dc:creator>Karel Uyttendaele</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/133814.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=133814</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Patent: &lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=7,408,403"&gt;Circuits and Methods for Amplifying Signals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img align="right" height="211" src="http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0808/05-patent-6.gif" width="385" /&gt; Apple&amp;rsquo;s sixth granted patent of the day generally relates to compensation circuitry in electronic circuits and devices and more particularly to a power supply compensation circuit in class D modulators.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apple&amp;rsquo;s patent FIG. 10 shows a schematic of a compensation circuit for a class D amplifier according to the present invention.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apple lists Douglas M. Farrar (Los Altos, CA) and Wendell B. Sander (Los Gatos, CA) as the inventors of this granted patent which was originally filed for in June 2006.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;amp;d=PALL&amp;amp;p=1&amp;amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&amp;amp;r=1&amp;amp;f=G&amp;amp;l=50&amp;amp;s1=7,408,403.PN.&amp;amp;OS=PN/7,408,403&amp;amp;RS=PN/7,408,403"&gt;http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;amp;d=PALL&amp;amp;p=1&amp;amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&amp;amp;r=1&amp;amp;f=G&amp;amp;l=50&amp;amp;s1=7,408,403.PN.&amp;amp;OS=PN/7,408,403&amp;amp;RS=PN/7,408,403&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>