ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,827, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).
"Resistor with exponential-weighted trim" was invented by Steve Edward Harrell (Corinth, Texas), Keith Eric Sanborn (Tucson, Ariz.), Wai Lee (Dallas) and Erika Lynn Mazotti (San Martin, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device, e.g. a trimmable resistor, includes a plurality of fused resistors, each fused resistor including one or more doped resistive regions formed in a semiconductor substrate. The doped resistive regions may be thermistors. Each fused resistor further includes a corresponding one of a plurality of fusible links. A first termina...