The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 11 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES Ex parte XIA DAI Appeal No. 2001-0184 Application No. 09/002,173 BRIEF Before THOMAS, KRASS, and BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judges. KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-11, all of the pending claims. The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for binary addition. More particularly, the invention seeks to make adder latency independent of the adder width N. The adderPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007