ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,971, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).

"Method and apparatus for limiting minority carrier injection" was invented by Rajiv Damodaran Prabha (Nashua, N.H.) and David Abramson (Stratham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver circuit comprising: a substrate; a first terminal; a second terminal; a switching circuit that is formed on the substrate, the switching circuit including a first switch and a second switch, the first switch having a first drain and a first source, the second switch having a second drain and a second source, the first drain being coupled to the first terminal, t...