US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on June 23 for "Trimming circuit for bandgap references" (Czech Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,507, issued on June 23, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Trimming circuit for bandgap references" was invented by Jan Ledvina (Tovacov, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical circuit includes positive and negative voltage rails, a reference voltage rail, a non-trimmable bandgap core configured to output a voltage reference on the reference voltage rail, and a trimming element in an auxiliary section located external to the bandgap core. A current source is coupled to the non-trimmable bandgap core and the positive voltage rail. An auxiliary diode arranged in an auxilia...