US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 23 for "Force/measure current gain trimming" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,474, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Force/measure current gain trimming" was invented by Tanmay Neema (Bangalore, India), Kanak Das (Bangalore, India), Rajavelu Thinakaran (Bangalore, India) and Gautam Nandi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques and circuits, described herein, include solutions for error compensation in source measurement units (SMUs). An example SMU is capable of both sourcing current to a device under test (DUT) and measuring current through the DUT. An SMU may include a sensing resistor coupled in series with the DUT. A voltage across the sensing re...