[time-nuts] New WWVB modulation format receivers (NOT)

[Florian Teply]

Am Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:45:56 -0800
schrieb "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard at karlquist.com>:

> 
> 
> On 2/19/2014 9:10 PM, John Marvin wrote:
> > I guess my question is who has the right to grant "exclusive
> > rights" for the ability to decode a very simple protocol? Was a
> > patent actually granted for this?
> >
> > John
> >
> 
> They have exclusive rights to the IP core for their IC.
> I guess someone else could design their own IC...
> 
> Rick

Well, if someone comes up with a circuit, I could check how much chip
area that would consume in a 250nm SiGe BiCMOS... Shouldn't be out of
range for a serious time nut ;-)

Florian