US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics, STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D on Nov. 11 for "Play mute circuit and method" (Chinese, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,187, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Play mute circuit and method" was invented by Jian Wen (Shenzhen, China), Davide Luigi Brambilla (Segrate, Italy), Qiyu Liu (Shenzhen, China), Mei Yang (Shenzhen, China), Shuming Tong (Shenzhen, China) and Francesco Stilgenbauer (Rho, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, an amplifier circuit includes a second stage that includes a first switch circuit including first and second terminals, a plurality of resistive elements coupled between the first and second ter...