ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,798, issued on May 13, was assigned to pSemi Corp. (San Diego).

"Controllable temperature coefficient bias circuit" was invented by Robert Mark Englekirk (Littleton, Colo.), Keith Bargroff (San Diego), Christopher C. Murphy (Lake Zurich, Ill.) and Tero Tapio Ranta (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controllable temperature coefficient bias (CTCB) circuit is disclosed. The CTCB circuit can provide a bias to an amplifier. The CTCB circuit includes a variable with temperature (VWT) circuit having a reference circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit has a control output, a first current control element and a second cur...