ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,645, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Ringing control circuits" was invented by Saqib Satti (Freising, Germany), Qiao Yang (Munich) and Stefan Herzer (Marzling, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a transistor and a ringing control circuit. The transistor is coupled between an input voltage terminal and a switching terminal. The transistor includes a control terminal. The ringing control circuit has a control input and a control output. The control input is coupled to the switching terminal, and the control output is coupled to the control terminal."
The patent was filed on J...