ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,330, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Peak detector circuit and an electronics system that includes the peak detector circuit" was invented by Nicholaus Smith (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peak detector circuit includes: a single operational amplifier having a non-inverting input, an inverting input, and an output; an output capacitor; a first diode having an anode electrically coupled to the output of the single operational amplifier and a cathode electrically coupled to the output capacitor; an RC feedback network electrically coupled between the output capacitor and t...