ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,541, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Low voltage can transceiver" was invented by Amit Patil (Hubli, India), Deep Banerjee (Bangalore, India), Lokesh Kumar Gupta (Bangalore, India), Viswanathan Venkatesh Kumar (Bangaluru, India), Upasana Bhattacharya (Bangalore, India) and Pallabi Pramanik (Singur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a CAN transceiver includes a first transistor having a control terminal, having a drain coupled to a voltage supply terminal, and having a source. The CAN transceiver includes a second transistor having a drain coupled to a control terminal of the first ...