ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,454, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Voltage-to-current converter with complementary current mirrors" was invented by Joseph Adut (San Diego), Jeremy Wong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Brian Hamilton (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Gregory Fung (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Voltage-to-current converters that include two current mirrors are disclosed. In an example voltage-to-current converter each current mirror is a complementary current mirror in that one of its input and output transistors is a P-type transistor and the other one is an N-type transistor. Such volta...