ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,455, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Process-voltage sensor with smaller chip area" was invented by Yi-Ta Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Hung-Chieh Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a PV sensor including a control circuit, a RC calibration circuit, and a voltage sensor. The control circuit is configured to generate at least one control signal. The RC calibration circuit is configured to receive the at least one control signal to generate a voltage indicates information of (1/R*C). The voltage sensor comprises a comparator, wherein the vol...