ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,827, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Beyond-the-rails bootstrapped sampling switch" was invented by Arashk Norouzpourshirazi (Austin, Texas) and Ravi K. Kummaraguntla (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bootstrapped switch circuit may include a signal switch configured to, when enabled via a gate terminal of the signal switch during a sampling phase of the bootstrapped switch circuit, pass an input signal received at its input to its output. The bootstrapped switch circuit may also include a bootstrap circuit coupled to the signal switch comprising a bootstrap capacitor and a plurali...