US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Sept. 22 for "Fast and compact pass switch driver" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,117, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Fast and compact pass switch driver" was invented by Francesco Ravelli (Villa di Serio, Italy), Alberto Gussoni (Cornaredo, Italy), Fabrizio Martignoni (Morazzone, Italy) and Katia Ingala (Barrafranca, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a circuit for regulating current flow and power dissipation. The circuit includes a power transistor generating a load current, a sense transistor producing a scaled version of the load current, and a regulation circuit equalizing drain-to-source voltages of both transistors. A current comp...