ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,556, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Kickback reduction in bootstrapped switches" was invented by Lei Sun (San Diego), Elias Dagher (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) and Dinesh Jagannath Alladi (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a switch transistor, and a bootstrap circuit having an input and an output, wherein the output of the bootstrap circuit is coupled to a gate of the switch transistor. The system also includes a first buffer having an input and an output, wherein the output of the first buffer is coupled to a terminal of the switch transistor. The system further includes a second buf...