ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,740, issued on July 15, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Transistor switching based on voltage sensing" was invented by Rajdeep Bondade (Richardson, Texas), Maxim Franke (Dallas), Stephen Phillip Savage (Richardson, Texas), Mrinal Kanti Das (Allen, Texas) and Johan Tjeerd Strydom (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, an apparatus comprises: a voltage sensing circuit having a voltage sensing terminal and a voltage sensing output, the voltage sensing circuit configured to generate a first voltage at the voltage sensing output representing a second voltage at the voltage sensing terminal; a co...