US Patent Issued to University of Utah Research Foundation on Aug. 4 for "Parasitic capacitance mitigation circuit for relaxation oscillators" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,851, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Parasitic capacitance mitigation circuit for relaxation oscillators" was invented by Matthieu A. Couriol (Salt Lake City) and Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parasitic capacitance mitigation circuit for a relaxation oscillator. The parasitic capacitance mitigation circuit includes a first switch coupled across a parasitic capacitance of a resistive sensing element and a second switch coupled between the parasitic capacitance and a reference voltage node. The parasitic capacitance mitigation circu...