US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Americas on Oct. 20 for "Sigma-delta modulator (SDM) overload detector circuit" (Irish, Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,868, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Sigma-delta modulator (SDM) overload detector circuit" was invented by Roman Ogirko (Lviv, Ukraine), Edward Gerard O'Malley (Claremorris, Ireland) and Cathal O'Lionaird (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overload detector circuit includes first logic circuitry and second logic circuitry. The first logic circuitry to receive a bitstream from a sigma-delta modulator (SDM) of a receiver channel, the first logic circuitry to compare a current bit of the bitstream with a previous bit of the bitstream and output an indication o...