US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Nov. 18 for "Temperature tolerant input stages for circuits" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,599, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Temperature tolerant input stages for circuits" was invented by Satoshi Sakurai (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of input stages of circuits are configured to reduce both negative-bias temperature instability (NBTI) and positive-bias temperature instability (PBTI) in PMOS transistors therein. Current-switched PMOS source follower transistors and a low-side NMOS differential pair is used to process a lower range of a rail-to-rail input signal range of a circuit. A PMOS source follower is disposed between the positive input of the circu...