US Patent Issued to Semtech on April 21 for "Data drivers" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,696, issued on April 21, was assigned to Semtech Corp. (Camarillo, Calif.).

"Data drivers" was invented by Behzad Farzaneh (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to data driver circuits, in particular to laser drivers. A driver is configured to receive an input signal and generate a corresponding driver output signal for driving an output device, such as a laser. A bias generator has a first output branch connected to an output node of the bias generator and a first control loop is configured to control a current in the first output branch to have a defined relationship to a bandgap referred current to provi...