ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,204, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AMS INTERNATIONAL AG (Jona, Switzerland).

"Method for operating a circuit arrangement and circuit arrangement" was invented by Roger Steadman Booker (Aachen, Germany) and Fridolin Michel (Au, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit arrangement and method for operating such is provided. The method includes receiving a voltage signal with a voltage level (IVL) by first and second comparators, comparing the IVL to a first voltage level (FVL), comparing the IVL to a second voltage level (SVL), incrementing a first counter assigned to the first comparator once the IVL is higher than the...