ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,317, issued on March 4, was assigned to Faraday Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"CML to CMOS conversion circuit, receiver circuit and conversion method thereof" was invented by Vinod Kumar Jain (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Mikhail Tamrazyan (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversion circuit includes a replica feedback loop circuit and a CML to CMOS converter. The replica feedback loop circuit of a conversion circuit includes a first inverter, a first-stage amplifier and a second-stage amplifier. An input terminal of the first inverter is shorted to an output terminal of the first inverter. The second-stage amplifier of...