ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,367, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Driver circuitry comprising active inductor circuitry for piezoelectric transducers" was invented by John P. Lesso (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to circuitry for driving a piezoelectric transducer. The circuitry may be implemented as an integrated circuit and comprises driver circuitry configured to supply a drive signal to cause the transducer to generate an output signal and active inductor circuitry configured to be coupled with the piezoelectric transducer. The active inductor circuitry may be tune...