US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Sept. 8 for "Controller area network (CAN) bus driver using translinear loops" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,771, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Controller area network (CAN) bus driver using translinear loops" was invented by Declan Jordan (Skerries, Ireland) and David Gammie (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Controller Area Network (CAN) bus driver for driving a CAN bus is provided. The bus driver may include a first translinear loop circuit to receive an input voltage and output a first output current signal corresponding to an exponential function, a second translinear loop circuit to receive the input voltage and output a second output current signal corresponding to a h...