US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 18 for "Circuits and methods to calibrate mirror displacement" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,356, issued on March 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Circuits and methods to calibrate mirror displacement" was invented by Robert Floyd Payne (McKinney, Texas) and James Norman Hall (Parker, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A calibration circuit providing a programmable voltage generator that is selectively connectable to a first capacitor plate of a capacitive structure to supply a voltage thereto. A reference voltage generator is coupled to the output of the programmable voltage generator and generates a reference voltage. A comparator receives the reference voltage and a discharging voltage from the cap...