US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 23 for "On die current sink circuit for overshoot mitigation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,846, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"On die current sink circuit for overshoot mitigation" was invented by Tezaswi Raja (San Jose, Calif.), Abhishek B Akkur (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Gu (San Jose, Calif.) and Chengcheng Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit that includes multiple power rails with dummy loads configured on at least some of the power rails. The dummy loads are activated in response to a voltage overshoot condition on regions of the power rails at which the dummy loads are located. The dummy loads may be substituted for decoupling capacitors o...