US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 17 for "Methods and apparatus to protect transistors using voltage clamp circuitry" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,380, issued on March 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to protect transistors using voltage clamp circuitry" was invented by Ganapathi Shankar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes: a transistor having a source, a drain, and a gate; first voltage clamp circuitry having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal, the first terminal of the first voltage clamp circuitry coupled to the source of the transistor, the second terminal of the first voltage clamp circuitry coupled to the gate of the transistor; second voltage clamp circuitry havi...