US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM Incorproated on Oct. 20 for "Duty-cycle and stray capacitance insensitive switched-capacitor current source" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,246, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Incorproated (San Diego).

"Duty-cycle and stray capacitance insensitive switched-capacitor current source" was invented by Chienchung Yang (San Diego), Yuhua Guo (San Diego), David Ta-hsiang Lin (San Diego), Xiaopeng Zhong (Seattle), Chieh-Yu Hsieh (Irvine, Calif.) and Daniel Kang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A duty-cycle-insensitive current source includes a first switched-capacitor resistor and a second switched-capacitor resistor. During a first clock phase of a clock signal, the duty-cycle-insensitive current source charges a first capacitor in first switched-capacitor...