ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,956, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Integration of analog circuits inside digital blocks" was invented by Ramy A. Ahmed (Cupertino, Calif.), Bruno W. Garlepp (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jafar Savoj (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for sensing local operating properties of an integrated circuit is disclosed. The circuit may include one or more sensor circuits configured to sense the local operating properties of the integrated circuit. The sensor circuits may receive a supply voltage with a magnitude in a limited range from a digital power supply that is different from the di...