ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,521, issued on July 14, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Techniques for voltage reference circuits with adaptive power cycling" was invented by Adrian Lin (Austin, Texas) and David Lovelace (Lakeway, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage across a first capacitor and a voltage across a second capacitor are set to a reference voltage via a reference voltage source. The first and second capacitors are disconnected from the reference voltage source and the reference voltage is turned-off. A processing device turns-on the reference voltage in response to determining a voltage difference be...