ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,512, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Adaptive refresh rate generator" was invented by Gang Yuan (Austin, Texas) and Bertrand Jeffery Williams (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a replica sampler circuit to sample a first voltage that is based on a reference voltage, the replica sampler circuit to at least approximate a non-linearity of a bias generator. The replica sampler circuit may include: a switch circuit, when enabled, to pass the first voltage; and a capacitor coupled to the switch circuit, the capacitor to be charged by the fir...