US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on July 15 for "Bias current with hybrid temperature profile" (Massachusetts, Colorado, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,542, issued on July 15, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Bias current with hybrid temperature profile" was invented by Kevin R. Wrenner (Essex Junction, Vt.), Ruida Yun (Weston, Mass.) and Kenneth G. Richardson (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include a scalable proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) hybrid circuit, comprising a bias mirror circuit configured to provide a zero temperature coefficient (ZTC) current, a PTAT control circuit configured to generate, based on the ZTC current, a PTAT current with a slope having a non-zero value, alter the PTAT cu...