US Patent Issued to Cirrus Logic on Oct. 14 for "Impedance tracking for connector between source and load" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,771, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Impedance tracking for connector between source and load" was invented by Emmanuel A. Marchais (Dripping Springs, Texas), Ziyan Zou (Austin, Texas) and Chin Huang Yong (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The impedance of a connector, such as a flex cable, between a source and load affects the temperature and power consumption within an electronic system, such as a mobile device. According to embodiments described in this disclosure, the impedance of the flex cable may be separately tracked from the impedance of the source, which provides for improve...