ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,532, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Bidirectional power switch circuit" was invented by Ranga Seshu Paladugu (Milpitas, Calif.), Soon G Lim (San Jose, Calif.), Ronak Prakashchandra Trivedi (Cupertino, Calif.) and Carmelo Morello (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to improvements in bidirectional power switch circuits. Example embodiments include a bidirectional power switch, BPS, circuit (200) comprising: first and second terminals (203, 204); first and second MOSFETs (201, 202, 501, 502) connected in series between the first and second terminals (203, 204) and c...