ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,204, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Efficient seamless switching of sigma-delta modulators" was invented by Dietmar Straeussnigg (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital microphone includes at least one integrator; a state detection and parameter control component directly coupled to an output of the integrator; and a signal processing component coupled to an output of the state detection and parameter control component, wherein a parameter of the signal processing component includes a first value in a first operational mode and a second value in a second operational...