ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,106, issued on June 3, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"High quiescent current control" was invented by Nitin Agarwal (Bangalore, India) and Aniruddha Roy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit is provided. In some examples, the circuit includes a first transistor having a gate and a drain coupled together and a current source coupled to the drain of the first transistor. A second transistor has a drain coupled to a source of the first transistor. A third transistor has a gate coupled to the gate of the first transistor. A fourth transistor has a drain coupled to a source of the third transistor an...