ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,438, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Bias clamp circuit" was invented by Saiteja Burugupalli (Bangalore, India) and Mahadevan Venkiteswaran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, an apparatus includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a fourth transistor. The first transistor has a source, a gate, and a drain, the drain of the first transistor coupled to a voltage supply terminal. The second transistor has a source, a gate, and a drain, the gate of the second transistor coupled to the gate of the first transistor, and the source of the secon...