ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,713, issued on July 15, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Maximum power detection and automatic gain control for capacitive class-D amplifiers" was invented by Junmin Jiang (San Jose, Calif.), Yinglai Xia (Plano, Texas), Yogesh Kumar Ramadass (San Jose, Calif.) and Shailendra Kumar Baranwal (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a charge pump having an input coupled to a first voltage and an output at a second voltage, the second voltage greater than the first voltage. The system also includes an amplifier having a first input, a second input, and a third input, the first input coupled to the ...