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Method for performing a "rotate through carry" operation

EP 0772809 B1 · Applicant: NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION

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  • Filed May 16, 1996 and granted August 27, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 16, 2016.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by November 16, 2021.
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FiledMay 16, 1996
PublishedMay 14, 1997
GrantedAugust 27, 2003
Term endedMay 16, 2016
Application numberEP 96920254
Classification (CPC)G06F5/01 +2 more

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