ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,190, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Startup calibration and digital temperature compensation for an open-loop VCO based ADC architecture" was invented by Simon Grunberger (Moosburg, Austria), Dietmar Straeussnigg (Villach, Austria), Florian Brame (Villach, Austria), Pedro Augusto Borrego Lambin Torres Amaral (Villach, Austria), David Andrew Russell (Bernareggio, Italy) and Carlos Andres Perez Cruz (Santa Cruz del Retam, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital microphone includes a first modulation path having an input for receiving an analog input signal and an output for gen...