ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,796, issued on June 16, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Circuit for generating a reference voltage" was invented by Anass Samir (Grenoble, France), Sebastien Ricavy (Grenoble, France) and Bastien Giraud (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a device (REFGEN) comprising: a first divider bridge (200) between a first node (202) at a supply voltage (VDDE) and a second node (204) at a reference potential (GND); a first transistor (Ten) and a second divider bridge (208) in series between the first and second nodes, the first transistor hav...