US Patent Issued to NXP on March 3 for "Temperature sensor circuits" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,096, issued on March 3, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Temperature sensor circuits" was invented by Peter van der Cammen (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a temperature sensor circuit comprising: a PTAT voltage circuit; a reference current source; a capacitor; a reset switch connected across the capacitor; a comparator configured to compare a voltage across the capacitor to the PTAT voltage and provide a comparator output; a counter circuit configured to increment or decrement an output word depending on the comparator output (U/D), and repeatedly perform the sequential ...