US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 10 for "Output circuit that outputs amplitude modulated signal having voltage value selected from three or more voltage values" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,651, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Output circuit that outputs amplitude modulated signal having voltage value selected from three or more voltage values" was invented by Satoru Mikajiri (Gunma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Output circuit includes differential circuit arranged between first and second power supply lines, and switch and resistor connected in series between the first and second power supply lines. The differential circuit includes first differential output circuit including first positive-side output terminal and first negative-side output terminal, second differential output circuit i...