US Patent Issued to Cirrus Logic on July 15 for "Driver stage short circuit detection" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,175, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Driver stage short circuit detection" was invented by Ramin Zanbaghi (Austin, Texas) and Kim Huynh (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a Class-D stage comprising a first high-side switch coupled between a supply voltage and a first output terminal of the Class-D stage, a second high-side switch coupled between the supply voltage and a second output terminal of the Class-D stage, a first low-side switch coupled between a ground voltage and the first output terminal, and a second low-side switch coupled between the ground voltage ...