US Patent Issued to Knowles Electronics on July 1 for "Sensor assembly with interface circuit voltage control" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,238, issued on July 1, was assigned to Knowles Electronics LLC (Itasca, Ill.).

"Sensor assembly with interface circuit voltage control" was invented by Vezio Malandruccolo (Rapperswil, Switzerland) and Luca Bettini (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor assembly including a transducer and interface circuit with a DSL-controlled input voltage is disclosed. The interface circuit includes a logic circuit configured to generate and provide a pulse width and amplitude modulated (PWAM) signal to an n-bit iDAC coupled to an analog front end (AFE) amplifier or buffer. The PWAM signal is based on an output of a forward signal-path ADC...