ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,944, issued on June 17, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Multi-point reference distribution circuit" was invented by Sovan Ghosh (Bengaluru, India) and Visvesvaraya Appala Pentakota (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes an amplifier, a pre-driver circuit, and an output circuit. The amplifier has a first input, a second input, and an output. The pre-driver circuit has an input coupled to the output of the amplifier, a first output, a second output, and a third output coupled to the second input of the amplifier. The output circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The f...