ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,304, issued on March 4, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Switch circuit" was invented by Vipul K. Singhal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In examples, an apparatus has input and output terminals, and includes a first transistor having a first gate, source, and drain, wherein the first source is coupled to the input terminal, and the first drain is coupled to the output terminal, a second transistor having a second gate, source, and drain, wherein the second gate is coupled to a ground terminal, and the second source is coupled to the first gate, a third transistor having a third gate, source, and dra...