US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 20 for "Microphone having a digital output determined at different power consumption levels" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,013, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Microphone having a digital output determined at different power consumption levels" was invented by Robert J. Littrell (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic device is described and includes an acoustic sensor element configured to sense acoustic energy and produce an output signal and a threshold detector circuit including a switch having an input coupled to the output of the acoustic sensor element to receive the output signal, a control port that receives a control signal, and first and second output ports, a first channel including an analog-...