US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 2 for "Methods and apparatus to drive solid-state relay circuitry" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,113, issued on June 2, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to drive solid-state relay circuitry" was invented by Kelvin Le (Dallas), Saleh Ahmad (Dallas) and Riccardo Ruffo (Munich).

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