US Patent Issued to Cirrus Logic on July 8 for "Clipping prevention in switched mode drivers" (British, American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,158, issued on July 8, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Clipping prevention in switched mode drivers" was invented by Ross C. Morgan (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Roberto Napoli (Milan), Kemal S. Demirci (Dallas) and Thomas H. Hoff (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to methods and apparatus for clipping prevention. A driver apparatus for driving a transducer has a switching driver configured to switch at least one output node between different switching voltages with a controlled duty-cycle to drive an output signal across the transducer. A clipping prevention controller is configur...