US Patent Issued to M31 TECHNOLOGY on March 4 for "Impedance calibration circuit and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,282, issued on March 4, was assigned to M31 TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Impedance calibration circuit and method" was invented by Ming-Yen Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Tze-Hsiang Chao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impedance calibration circuit includes a variable impedance circuit, a detection circuit and a control circuit. The variable impedance circuit includes conduction paths connected in parallel between an output terminal and a supply terminal coupled to a first supply voltage. The variable impedance circuit is configured to adjust an impedance at the output terminal by enabling one or more of...