US Patent Issued to Cirrus Logic on May 19 for "Switching drivers with voltage monitoring" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,885, issued on May 19, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Switching drivers with voltage monitoring" was invented by John P. Lesso (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Douglas J.W. Macfarlane (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and John L. Melanson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to methods and apparatus for switching drivers. The switching driver has first and second switches for selectively connecting an output node to first and second switching voltages respectively to generate a first output voltage. A compensator is configured to receive a first monitor signal indicative of a sum of the first...