US Patent Issued to Maxim Integrated Products on July 29 for "Auto-calibration systems and methods for reducing amplifier offset" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,051, issued on July 29, was assigned to Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Auto-calibration systems and methods for reducing amplifier offset" was invented by Euan Patrick Murphy (West Lothian, Great Britain), Matthew Derrell Felder (Austin, Texas) and Bryan Mo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods reduce unwanted effects caused by mismatch in amplifier circuits having components that are trimmable during and post-production to minimize DC offset. Various embodiments of the invention trim out amplifier mismatch by determining trim codes for two or more phases of operation of an amplifie...