US Patent Issued to Cirrus Logic on Jan. 13 for "Circuitry for and methods of gain control" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,940, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Circuitry for and methods of gain control" was invented by Andrew J. Howlett (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Michael Chandler-Page (Chesterfield, Great Britain) and Lea S. Georgieva (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Signal processing circuitry configured to receive an input signal and to output a processed output signal, wherein the signal processing circuitry is configured to: receive an indication of a temporal location of a transient in the input signal; and provide, in the processed output signal, a masking signal bridging the temporal ...