ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,145, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Voltage regulator for switch control" was invented by Deepak Kumar Meher (Bangalore, India), Gautam Salil Nandi (Bangalore, India) and Tanmay Neema (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In described examples, an R2R digital-to-analog converter includes multiple arms and a voltage regulator. Respective arms include an arm switch with a p-channel MOSFET (PFET) switch and an n-channel MOSFET (NFET) switch. The voltage regulator includes a differential amplifier, a p-ladder that includes N cascade-coupled PFETS and has first and second ends, an n-ladder ...