US Patent Issued to NXP on May 5 for "Compensation for light-induced current in an integrated circuit" (Austrian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,850, issued on May 5, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Compensation for light-induced current in an integrated circuit" was invented by Slawomir Rafal Malinowski (Graz, Austria), Egas Carvalho Henes Neto (Gratkorn, Austria) and Fabien Boitard (Mouans Sartoux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for compensating for the effects of light exposure is provided. The circuit includes a first circuit and a light compensation circuit. The first circuit has an output terminal for providing a first current, wherein at least a portion of the first current is a function of a first light sensitive circuit component. T...