US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Aug. 12 for "Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to reduce leakage current in sampling circuitry" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,458, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to reduce leakage current in sampling circuitry" was invented by Ignacio Estay Forno (Tuscon, Ariz.), Nanqi Liu (Tuscon, Ariz.), Yu-Wen Kuo (Tuscon, Ariz.) and Dhyey Naren Desai (Tuscon, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes bias control circuitry and sampling circuitry. The example sampling circuitry includes a first switch coupled to a first capacitor in series between an input voltage terminal and a common mode voltage terminal, the first switch including a first terminal coupled to...