US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Oct. 21 for "Apparatus comprising a comparator circuit" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,877, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus comprising a comparator circuit" was invented by Raik Fiedler (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a comparator circuit and a clock generation circuit. The comparator circuit is configured to compare a first input signal with a second input signal during a first comparison phase to obtain a comparison result. Furthermore, an output signal is output, wherein a waveform of the output signal indicates the comparison result. During a subsequent regeneration phase, at least a p...