ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,331, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Driver circuitry" was invented by Chandra B. Prakash (Austin, Texas), Tejasvi Das (Austin, Texas), Cory J. Peterson (Austin, Texas) and Siddharth Maru (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuitry for driving a load, the circuitry comprising: driver circuitry; and load sensing circuitry, wherein the circuitry is operable in: a driving mode of operation in which the driver circuitry supplies a drive signal to a load coupled to the circuitry; and a load sensing mode of operation, for estimating a characteristic of a load coupled to the circuitry based...