ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,901, issued on March 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Adaptive switch driving" was invented by Kan Li (Singapore), Guolei Yu (Singapore), Hua Guan (San Diego) and Todd Robert Sutton (Del Mar, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is disclosed for adaptive switch driving. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes a switching circuit configured to selectively be in a first state that provides an input voltage as an output voltage, be in a second state that provides a ground voltage as the output voltage, or be in a third state that causes the output voltage to change from the input voltage to the ground ...