US Patent Issued to NXP USA on June 30 for "Bootstrapped switching circuit" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,404, issued on June 30, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Bootstrapped switching circuit" was invented by Pascal Sandrez (Toulouse, France), Thomas Mallard (Toulouse, France), An Vu Thuy Hoang (Toulouse, France), Matthew Francis Bacchi (Saveres, France) and Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes (Tournefeuille, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a bootstrapped switching circuit. Example embodiments include a bootstrapped switching circuit (100) comprising: a positive output node (109+); a negative output node (109-); a first input node (106a) configured to receive a first input voltage (Vin1); a s...