ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,596, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Retym Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Comparator circuit with speed control element" was invented by Roee Eitan (Haifa, Israel), Yaakov Dayan (Jerusalem), Yosi Sanhedrai (Bet Shemesh, Israel), Aviv Berg (Beit Keshet, Israel), Esther T. Fridman (Jerusalem) and Kirill Blum (Nesher, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A comparator circuit with a speed control element is disclosed herein. The speed control element may include a variable voltage source and one or more transistors. Using a voltage supplied by the variable voltage source, the one or more transistors may control a swing of a clock signal ...