ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,173, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Current monitoring in switched mode drivers" was invented by Malcolm Blyth (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Ross C. Morgan (Bathgate, Great Britain) and Michael Robinson (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to methods and apparatus for current monitoring in switched mode drivers. A switching driver has an output stage with a network of switches for switching an output node between different switching voltages and a modulator for controlling a duty-cycle of the switching output stage based on the input signal, where the ...