ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,992, issued on April 15, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).
"Auxiliary supply circuit" was invented by Tarunvir Singh (Bengaluru, India), Shubham Panjrath (Bengaluru, India) and Anant Kamath (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a supply circuit having an input and an output. The supply circuit includes: a capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal of the capacitor coupled to the output of the supply circuit; a switch having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal, the first terminal of the switch coupled to the input of the supply circuit...