US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on July 15 for "Class AB monticelli output stage design with bias temperature instability tolerance" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,712, issued on July 15, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Class AB monticelli output stage design with bias temperature instability tolerance" was invented by Vivek Varier (Tucson, Ariz.), Srinivas Kumar Pulijala (Tucson, Ariz.), Vadim Valerievich Ivanov (Tucson, Ariz.) and Jerry L. Doorenbos (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a system includes an amplifier having an output stage configured to provide an output voltage, where the output stage includes a p-channel transistor and an n-channel transistor. The system includes a sense transistor having a gate coupled to a gate of the p-channel tra...