ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,696, issued on May 26, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Semiconductor circuit" was invented by Kazunori Hasebe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a semiconductor circuit that includes a plurality of amplifiers that is connected in series and individually amplify and supply a signal on an input side to an output side. A first chopper switch is connected to an input side of a first amplifier connected first among the plurality of amplifies, and a second chopper switch is connected to an output side of the first amplifier. The first and second chopper switches act in synchron...