ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,068, issued on June 17, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Multi-channel digital isolator with integrated configurable pulse width modulation interlock protection" was invented by Sadia Arefin Khan (Dallas), Anant Shankar Kamath (Bengaluru, India), Martin Staebler (Freising, Germany) and Vikas Kumar Thawani (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-channel digital isolator includes a digital isolator and an interlock circuit. The isolator includes a transmitter having a transmitter output, a receiver having a receiver input and a receiver output, an isolation barrier coupled between the transmitter outpu...