US Patent Issued to NXP USA on Nov. 4 for "Bandgap reference circuit" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,549, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Bandgap reference circuit" was invented by Thierry Michel Alain Sicard (Auzeville Tolosane, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bandgap voltage reference circuit comprises a plurality of delta base-emitter voltage (triangleVbe) cells extending between first and second voltage rails in a serial arrangement. Each triangleVbe cell includes a transistor comprising a single first emitter connection and eight second emitter connections. The single first emitter connection of a second transistor in the serial arrangement is coupled to one of the eight second emitter co...