US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Dec. 30 for "Microcontroller including a digital potentiometer" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,850, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Microcontroller including a digital potentiometer" was invented by John Charais (Oconomowoc, Wis.) and Stein Julusmoen (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a microcontroller including a digital potentiometer provided in a microcontroller packaging. The digital potentiometer includes a resistor ladder including a plurality of resistors arranged in series and a plurality of selectively controllable potentiometer switches, a first resistor terminal connected to the resistor ladder, and a wiper terminal connected to t...