ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,190, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Input offset compensation for a comparator circuit" was invented by Jiri Kutej (Brno, Czech Republic), Pavel Horsky (Brno, Czech Republic) and Jan Plojhar (Mokra Horakov, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A comparator circuit is disclosed. The comparator circuit includes a comparator with a first input terminal configured to receive a first input signal, a second input terminal configured to receive a second input signal, a chopper circuit configured to alternate an input polarity of an input stage during a first phase an...