US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Aug. 11 for "Methods and apparatus to control a slew rate of driver circuitry" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,602, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to control a slew rate of driver circuitry" was invented by Qunying Li (Allen, Texas), Lester Boampong (Dallas) and Lawrence Cotton (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes: current source circuitry having a first terminal and a second terminal; current sink circuitry having a first terminal and a second terminal; a first transistor having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal, the first terminal of the first transistor coupled to the first terminal of the current source circuitry; a ...