US Patent Issued to Maxim Integrated Products on June 23 for "Driver circuit and method for supplying limited current to a load" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,591, issued on June 23, was assigned to Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Driver circuit and method for supplying limited current to a load" was invented by Siro Buzzetti (Limerick, Ireland), Marco Demicheli (Limerick, Ireland), Danilo Ranieri (Limerick, Ireland) and Roberto Casiraghi (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver circuit includes a primary driver sub-circuit, a comparator sub-circuit and an auxiliary driver sub-circuit. The primary driver sub-circuit is configured to (i) generate an output voltage, and (ii) supply a predetermined maximum amount of current from a power source to a load v...