ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,009, issued on March 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Overshoot current detection and correction circuit for electrical fast transient events" was invented by Shishir Goyal (Bengaluru, India) and Lokesh Kumar Gupta (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive overshoot detection circuit comprises a transistor coupled to a current mirror, a reference current source coupled to the current mirror, and a comparator coupled to the reference current source and the current mirror. The comparator output indicates whether the current mirror's current is greater than the reference current source's current. ...