US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Dec. 2 for "Adaptive slope compensation in solenoid drivers to avoid instability in current regulation" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,428, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Adaptive slope compensation in solenoid drivers to avoid instability in current regulation" was invented by Sreenath Puthumana (Bangalore, India), Ganapathi Shankar (Bangalore, India) and Venkata Naresh Kotikelapudi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes an amplifier having a first input, a reference input, and an output. A pulse width modulator (PWM) controller has an input coupled to the output of the amplifier. A first switch has a control terminal coupled to an output of the PWM controller. A second switch has a second terminal co...