ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,862, issued on July 29, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS (Grenoble, France).
"Low side driver for laser diode" was invented by Xavier Branca (Sassenage, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a low side driver integrated circuit for a laser diode includes a reference transistor, an output transistor having a gate coupled to a gate of the reference transistor, a first transistor having a gate for receiving a pulsed signal, a drain coupled to a drain of the output transistor and a source coupled to ground, a second transistor, for obtaining a source voltage of the output transistor equal to the sourc...