US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on Aug. 12 for "Split rail power supply architecture" (Norwegian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,405, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Split rail power supply architecture" was invented by Ruchi Shankar (Bengaluru, India), Robin O. Hoel (Olso, Norway), Patrick Seem (Oslo, Norway), Oddgeir Fikstvedt (Oslo, Norway) and Jan-Tore Marienborg (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein relate to split rail architecture for power supplies in a system, and more particularly, to providing isolation and control of a power supply. In an example, an integrated circuit device is provided that includes a device voltage supply, an input/output (I/O) voltage supply coupled to the...