ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,481, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Circuit comprising a current mirror circuit and method for operating a circuit" was invented by Fabio Padovan (Villach, Austria), Dmytro Cherniak (Villach, Austria), Saleh Karman (Villach, Austria), Luigi Grimaldi (Villach, Austria) and Giovanni Boi (Padua, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a circuit including a current mirror circuit with a current path including a first transistor and a replica current path including a second transistor. The current path is connected to the replica current path to influence a current...