US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on March 17 for "Glitch-less acoustic range optimization for microphones" (Austrian, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,246, issued on March 17, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Glitch-less acoustic range optimization for microphones" was invented by Fulvio Ciciotti (Bad Bleiberg, Austria), Jose Luis Ceballos (Villach, Austria), Luca Sant (Cassacco, Italy), Alessandro Caspani (Villach, Austria) and Andreas Wiesbauer (Portschach a. W., Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attenuator circuit includes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device having an output for providing an analog output voltage; a switch having a first controlled node coupled to an output of the MEMS device, a second controlled node for receivi...