US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 14 for "Voltage aware bias receiver in an analog node" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,124, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Voltage aware bias receiver in an analog node" was invented by Abhinav Murali (Bangalore, India) and Pradeep Kumar Sana (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, including: an input node; a bias receiver; and a protection device, a gate of the protection device coupled to the bias receiver, the bias receiver tied to a lower voltage domain level, a first source or drain of the protection device coupled to the input node to receive a current from an analog node or a higher voltage domain level from the analog node and a second drain or source of th...