ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,384, issued on May 6, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Voltage identification signal decoder with precharging" was invented by Vishal Shaw (Howrah, India), Preetam Charan Anand Tadeparthy (Bangalore, India) and Mayank Jain (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, an apparatus includes a first decoder circuit having a first voltage identification (VID) analog input and a first digital output. The apparatus also includes a precharge circuit having a digital input and a first analog output, the digital input coupled to the first digital output. The apparatus also includes a second decoder circuit ...