US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on May 12 for "Slew-rate control for power stages" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,212, issued on May 12, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Slew-rate control for power stages" was invented by Maik Peter Kaufmann (Freising, Germany), Stefan Herzer (Marzling, Germany) and Michael Lueders (Freising, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a half-bridge circuit is configured to provide a switching voltage responsive to respective high-side and low-side drive signals. High-side slew control circuitry is configured to provide a high-side slew-compensated control signal responsive to a high-side enable signal and a slew current signal representative of a slew rate at a switching output. A ...