ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,689, issued on April 21, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Hysteretic comparison circuit" was invented by Marcos Mauricio Pelicia (Austin, Texas), Vivek Reddy Nandyala (Austin, Texas) and Edevaldo Pereira da Silva Jr. (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hysteretic comparison circuit includes a comparator which receives a first input voltage at a control electrode of a first transistor in a first current branch and a second input voltage at a control electrode of a second transistor in a second current branch, and alternately operates in first and second phases. The comparator provides a single output voltage...