US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Aug. 4 for "Multi-function high side field-effect transistor driver circuit" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,800, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Multi-function high side field-effect transistor driver circuit" was invented by Bradford Hunter (Austin, Texas), Jing Ye (Dallas), Xiaoqiu Summer Huang (Dallas) and Terry Sculley (Lewisville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit comprises a charge pump connected to a power source terminal and to a ground terminal, the charge pump having a charge pump output terminal; and a switch matrix having a plurality of switch matrix inputs and a plurality of switch matrix outputs, wherein pairs of the plurality of switch matrix outputs are connected t...