ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,115, issued on June 2, was assigned to CIRRUS LOGIC INC. (Austin, Texas).
"Binary inverter circuits with configurable threshold voltages" was invented by Angel C. Abusleme Hoffman (Round Rock, Texas), Agustin R. Campeny (Austin, Texas) and John L. Melanson (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reduced delay and improved threshold tracking over PVT in a comparator input circuit and comparator are provided by circuits that include an inverter stage having a first complementary pair of transistors connected in a push-pull configuration. An input of the inverter stage is coupled to the gates of the first complementary pair of tran...