ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,542, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Method and apparatus for precision temperature sensing" was invented by Kareem Abdelghani Ibraheem Mohamed Ragab (Irvine, Calif.), Xiaofeng Lin (Irvine, Calif.), Darwin Cheung (Irvine, Calif.), Chi Mo (Irvine, Calif.), Vinay Chandrasekhar (Irvine, Calif.), Jungwoo Song (Irvine, Calif.) and Xicheng Jiang (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a switched-capacitor resistor that provides an equivalent resistance that can be used as a reference resistor. The switched-capacitor resistor includes a capacitor ...