US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries U.S. on Aug. 12 for "Non-volatile current mirror circuit with programmable transistor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,379, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Non-volatile current mirror circuit with programmable transistor" was invented by Navneet K. Jain (Milpitas, Calif.) and Venkatesh P. Gopinath (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a structure, including: a current mirror; a programmable transistor with an adjustable threshold voltage connected in parallel with an output transistor of the current mirror; an enable switch for coupling the current mirror to a gate of the programmable transistor; and a programming switch coupled to the gate of the pro...