US Patent Issued to Cirrus Logic on May 26 for "Clipping prevention in switched mode drivers" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,694, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Clipping prevention in switched mode drivers" was invented by Ross C. Morgan (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Kemal S. Demirci (Dallas) and Thomas H. Hoff (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to methods and apparatus for clipping prevention. A driver apparatus for driving a load with an output signal has a switching driver with a switch network and a modulator configured to control the switch network to switch output nodes between different switching voltages with a controlled duty-cycle. A quantizer controller receives a quantizer ...