ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,921, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).
"Voltage detecting circuit and information processing apparatus" was invented by Atsushi Mori (Kawasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ring oscillator included in a reference-frequency generating circuit and a comparative-frequency generating circuit has multiple inverters that are arranged in series in a ring shape. A sampling unit acquires an output signal from the respective inverters in each sampling cycle. A transition-stage calculating unit calculates the number of transition stages that is the number of inverters in which a value of an output sign...