ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,623, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY (Kawaguchi, Japan).

"Electronic circuit" was invented by Takeaki Yajima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spike generation circuit includes a first CMOS inverter connected between a first power supply and a second power supply, an output node of the first CMOS inverter being coupled to a first node that is an intermediate node coupled to an input terminal to which an input signal is input, a switch connected in series with the first CMOS inverter, between the first power supply and the second power supply, a first inverting circuit that outputs an inver...