US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Feb. 10 for "Offset voltage cancelation for a charge amplification circuit" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,145, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Offset voltage cancelation for a charge amplification circuit" was invented by Giovanni Pelligra (Ragusa, Italy), Alberto Giuseppe Cavallaro (Catania, Italy) and Tiziano Chiarillo (Mascalucia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes an amplifier, a bias voltage node, and a first set of switches configured, based on a first reset signal being asserted, to couple amplifier input nodes to the bias voltage node and to short-circuit amplifier output nodes. First and second feedback branches each include a respective circuit network inc...