ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,032, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).
"Pass gate driver" was invented by Bernhard Wolfgang Ruck (Freising, Germany), Ruediger Kuhn (Freising, Germany) and Oliver Nehrig (Freising, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver includes a low-resistance charging path between a supply voltage rail and a first output node, a high-resistance charging path between the supply voltage rail and the first output node, an inverter coupled to the first output node and configured to enable and disable the low-resistance charging path, and a high-resistance discharging path between the first output node and a s...