ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,589, issued on July 29, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Floating pin detection" was invented by Ashutosh Chitnis (Ambernath, India), Divya Kaur (Delhi, India), Rajat Chauhan (Bangalore, India) and Shuvam Prasad (Faridabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A float detector includes a latch and a float detection circuit. The latch includes a latch output and an input/output (I/O) terminal. The I/O terminal is coupled to an input terminal. The float detection circuit includes a detection input, a drive output, and a float detection circuit. The detection input is coupled to the latch output. The drive output is cou...