ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,550, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Reference voltage generating device and circuit system using the same" was invented by Chih Ming Li (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Cheng-Tao Li (Zhubei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A referential voltage generating device includes a bandgap-voltage generating unit, a control-comparison unit, a difference current generating unit and a referential voltage generating unit. The bandgap-voltage generating unit generates a second proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) current and a bandgap-voltage based on a first PTAT current and a complementary to an a...