ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,199, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Filtering architecture with minimized transients" was invented by Dietmar Straeussnigg (Villach, Austria), Simon Grunberger (Moosburg, Austria) and Mario Grgic (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital microphone includes a logarithmic amplifier; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to the logarithmic amplifier; a digital decompression component coupled to the ADC; and a digital filter coupled to the digital decompression component, wherein the digital filter includes a controlled upsampling component coupled to an input o...