ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,568, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Dual-mode line driver for ethernet applications" was invented by Srikanth Manian (Bangalore, India), Sumantra Seth (Bangalore, India) and Trilok Kamagond (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver includes an operational amplifier which includes a first amplifier input coupled to a first driver input, a second amplifier input coupled to a second driver input, a first amplifier output, a second amplifier output, a third amplifier output and a fourth amplifier output. The first amplifier output is coupled to the first driver output and the third am...