US Patent Issued to NCKU Research and Development Foundation, Himax Technologies on May 13 for "Inverter-based comparator" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,134, issued on May 13, was assigned to NCKU Research and Development Foundation (Tainan, Taiwan) and Himax Technologies Ltd. (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Inverter-based comparator" was invented by Philex Ming-Yan Fan (Tainan, Taiwan), Yi-Fu Chen (Tainan, Taiwan) and Bo-Rui Chen (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter-based comparator, powered between a first supply voltage and a second supply voltage being lower than the first supply voltage, includes a first inverter branch composed of at least one first P-type transistor and at least one first N-type transistor; and a second inverter branch composed of at least one second ...