US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Americas on March 31 for "Low-power programmable analog subsystem for acoustic activity detection" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,168, issued on March 31, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Low-power programmable analog subsystem for acoustic activity detection" was invented by Eashwar Thiagarajan (Bothell, Wash.), Rodolfo Gondim Lossio (Taiwan, Taiwan), Ding Ma (Kirkland, Wash.), Nidhin Mulangattil Sudhakaran (Lynnwood, Wash.), Andrew Page (Kirkland, Wash.), Ashutosh Pandey (Irvine, Calif.) and Bert Sullam (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a first signal, wherein the first signal is an audio signal. The method further includes providing the first signal to a first comparison ci...