ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,303, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Dynamic current mirror employing miller effect" was invented by Bouchaib Cherif (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Philippe O. Pouliquen (Baltimore), Jamal Lottier Molin (Odenton, Md.) and Sergio Tudor Montano (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to aspects of the present disclosure, a dynamic current mirror (DCM) is operated in a first stage and a second stage that is temporally subsequent to the first stage. The DCM includes a current memory cell and an inverting voltage amplifier. During the first stage, the current memory cell rec...