ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,042, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ams Sensors Asia Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Self-calibrating driver circuit" was invented by Rahim Akbari-Dilmaghani (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-calibrating driver circuit (100, 300, 400, 500, 700) for a laser diode is disclosed. The circuit comprises a configurable current source (105, 305, 405, 505), a current mirror (115, 315, 415) configured to mirror a current from the configurable current source to a first transistor (120, 320, 420, 520, 720) and to a second transistor (125, 325, 425, 725), and a control circuit (140, 340, 440). The control circuit is config...