ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,357, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NEXPERIA B.V. (Nijmegen, Netherlands).
"Area efficient bidirectional switch with off state injection current control" was invented by Deepak Gajanana (Nijmegen, Netherlands) and Gim Heng Tan (Penang, Malaysia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission unit including a transmission switch and an injection current control circuit is provided. The transmission switch includes a plurality of n-MOS and p-MOS transistors connected to one another in parallel, and the injection current control circuit includes an injection current detection circuit that is arranged for being activated upon detection...