US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 3 for "Complementary to absolute temperature reference circuit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,465, issued on March 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Complementary to absolute temperature reference circuit" was invented by Tongyu Song (San Diego) and Sang Wook Park (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a reference circuit. The reference circuit includes a current source configured to generate a reference current, a resistor, and a programmable diode circuit coupled between the current source and the resistor. The programmable diode circuit includes n-type diodes and first switches, wherein each of the first switches is coupled in series with a respective one of the n-type diodes. The programm...