US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 24 for "Circuit and system for actively discharging a power stage input node during power supply turn-on" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,693, issued on June 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Circuit and system for actively discharging a power stage input node during power supply turn-on" was invented by Manuel Wiersch (Freising, Germany) and Ferdinand Stettner (Dachau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for controlling a discharge transistor for a power stage includes a current mirror, a first diode, and a second diode. The current mirror includes first, second, third and fourth field-effect transistors (FETs) configured to provide a fast startup signal and a startup discharge signal. The startup discharge signal is provided to a gate...