ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,740, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Nuvolta Technoloiges (Heifei) Co. Ltd. (Hefei, China).

"Load switch including back-to-back connected transistors" was invented by Jinbiao Huang (Nashua, N.H.) and John Lin (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a first drain/source region and a second drain/source region over a substrate, and a first gate adjacent to the first drain/source region, a second gate adjacent to the second drain/source region and a third gate between the first gate and the second gate, wherein the first drain/source region, the second drain/source region, the first gate, the second gat...