ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,093, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Switched capacitor amplifying apparatus and method having gain adjustment mechanism" was invented by Yen-Ting Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a switched capacitor amplifying apparatus having gain adjustment mechanism. An amplifier includes an input terminal and an output terminal. A capacitor circuit includes a sampling capacitor circuit, a load capacitor and a level-shifting capacitor array. The sampling capacitor circuit includes two sampling input terminals and a sampling output terminal to rec...