ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,117, issued on April 29, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium) and KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (Leuven, Belgium).

"Input circuitry and a method for receiving an analog input signal" was invented by Xiaohua Huang (Leuven, Belgium) and Marco Ballini (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input circuitry for receiving an analog input signal comprises: an input transistor configured to receive the analog input signal on a gate terminal of the input transistor wherein the input transistor is connected to a digital component providing a digital signal, and wherein the input transistor is configured to receive the digital...