US Patent Issued to EM Microelectronic-Marin on June 3 for "Output driver provided with an active overvoltage protection" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,957, issued on June 3, was assigned to EM Microelectronic-Marin SA (Marin, Switzerland).

"Output driver provided with an active overvoltage protection" was invented by Mario Dellea (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) and Athos Canclini (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output driver (12), including: a first supply rail (13A) configured to receive a high supply electrical voltage (Vdd); a second supply rail (13B) configured to receive a low supply electrical voltage (Vss); a pad terminal (15) configured to output an output electrical voltage (V_pad_out); an output stage (14) connected to the pad terminal (15) and t...