ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,138, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Renesas Electronics Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor device and imaging device" was invented by Wataru Saito (Tokyo) and Fukashi Morishita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable gain amplifier provided in a semiconductor device includes a fully differential amplifier configured to amplify differential input voltages having an offset voltage. First and second correction voltages are input to a non-inverting input node and an inverting input node of the fully differential amplifier via first and second resistance elements, respectively."
The patent was filed on Oct. 31, 2023, under Appl...