US Patent Issued to Analog Devices International UnLtd. on Nov. 18 for "Common mode voltage clamp for multidrop networks" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,454, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Common mode voltage clamp for multidrop networks" was invented by Juan Carlos Garcia Tebar (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example common mode (CM) voltage clamp for a node of a multidrop network includes a first and second CM voltage dividers coupled to first and second lines of a differential link; a first N-type transistor coupled to the first line via a first diode, and further coupled to the first CM voltage divider; a second N-type transistor coupled to the second line via a second diode, and further couple...