US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on May 26 for "Digital-domain-integrated, voltage-to-frequency temperature sensor" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,336, issued on May 26, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Digital-domain-integrated, voltage-to-frequency temperature sensor" was invented by Naor Peretz (Nahariya, Israel), Ofek Abadi (Kfar, Israel) and Ido Bourstein (Pardes Hana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a bandgap reference circuit configured to generate, from a digital chip supply voltage, a reference voltage and a proportional-to-absolute temperature (PTAT) voltage. A voltage-to-frequency (VTF) readout circuit to receive the reference voltage and the PTAT voltage as inputs. The VTF readout circuit includes sets of switc...