ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,143, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power level comparator with switching input" was invented by Seohee Kim (San Diego), Chulmin Jung (San Diego), Xiao Chen (San Diego), Hanil Lee (San Diego), Venugopal Boynapalli (San Diego) and Jung Pill Kim (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit is disclosed that includes a power supply multiplexer for selecting between a first power supply voltage and a second power supply voltage to provide a selected power supply voltage to a memory. A controller includes a comparator stage having a comparator with switchable inputs so that the comparator...