ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,981, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to reduce error in operational amplifiers" was invented by Kunal Karanjkar (Bangalore, India), Venkata Ramanan R (Bangalore, India), Srinivasa BS Chakravarthy (Bangalore, India) and Per Torstein Roine (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device includes: switch circuitry configured to: connect, in a first state based on a control signal, a first switch input to a first switch output and a second switch input to a second switch output; and connect, in a second state based on the control signal, the first switch input to...