Bill Garber wrote:
> 
> "Jerry"  wrote in message 
> news:m363mt5zna.fsf{at}yahoo.ca...
>> mojoehand  writes:
>>
>>> Jerry Penner, I wanted to thank you for the information you emailed,
>>> but my reply bounced. It seems that Yahoo is being too agressive in
>>> its spam filtering.
>>
>> Must be.  There was no message in my spam folder at all, which is the
>> usual case.
>>
>> I would have put the patent document online, but I don't have a
>> web-site right now.
>>
>> For others who are interested, the patent is US# 4,631,692, and can be
>> found at uspto.gov.
> 
> 
> I went there, and searched it, and the only info available was that it 
> had expired on December 23, 1998. I couldn't actually find the Patent 
> there.

Go to:  http://patft.uspto.gov/

and select Patent Number Search, then enter 4631692 and you'll see
the patent.  It describes a 4-bit shift register implementation,
where the shift register is clocked at 14.3MHz--the classic 16-color
implementation.

-michael

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