US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Jan. 13 for "Bootstrapped switch" (New Hampshire, California, Hawaii, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,979, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Bootstrapped switch" was invented by Athanasios Ramkaj (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael H. Perrott (Nashua, N.H.), Baher S. Haroun (Allen, Texas) and Boris Murmann (Honolulu).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes: buffer circuitry having a buffer input and a buffer output; a transistor coupled between the buffer output and a current terminal, the transistor having a control terminal; and level shifter circuitry having a level shifter input and a level shifter output, the level shifter input coupled to the buffer input, and the level shifter output...