ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 30 -- Analog Devices, Norwood, Massachusetts, has been assigned a patent (8,872,549) developed by two co-inventors for an "analog minimum or maximum voltage selector circuit." The co-inventors are Sandro Herrera, Medford, Massachusetts, and Moshe Gerstenhaber, Newton, Massachusetts.

The patent was filed on Feb. 19, 2013 (13/770,880). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml . . .