US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Feb. 25 for "Fast soft-start reference current controlled by supply ramp" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,666, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Fast soft-start reference current controlled by supply ramp" was invented by Venkateswarlu Ramaswamy Tiruvamattur (Karnataka, India) and RamaKrishna Ankamreddi (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for controlling a low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator. In an example, an LDO voltage regulator circuit includes an amplifier having an output coupled to a transistor. First and second inputs of the amplifier are coupled to a power supply node via first and second resistors, respectively. The transistor gate is coupled to the amplifier output, th...