ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,429, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"Amplifier circuit" was invented by Shotaro Wada (Nisshin, Japan), Tomohiro Nezuka (Nisshin, Japan) and Yoshikazu Furuta (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amplifier circuit includes: an amplifier; a first switched resistor unit configured by connecting in series a first resistance element having one or more resistors and a first switch, and having one end connected to an input terminal of the amplifier; a second resistance element unit connected between an other ...