US Patent Issued to National Cheng Kung University on May 20 for "Multiple-reference-embedded comparator and comparison method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,843, issued on May 20, was assigned to National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Multiple-reference-embedded comparator and comparison method thereof" was invented by Jia-Ching Wang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Tai-Haur Kuo (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiple-reference-embedded comparator (MREC) circuit includes a tail current source circuit; an input transistor pair, coupled to the tail current source circuit, configured to receive differential input voltages and perform a first pre-amplification to generate first differential amplified voltages according to the differential input voltages; and a plurality of e...