US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on May 19 for "Amplifier with overvoltage protection" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,882, issued on May 19, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Amplifier with overvoltage protection" was invented by Jordan Herschell Wenske (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In described examples, a circuit includes a reference voltage, a driving circuit with a driving input and a driving output, an output transistor, and a clamp circuit with a clamp input and a clamp output. The output transistor includes a source, a drain, and a gate; the source is coupled to receive the reference voltage. The clamp input is coupled to the driving output and to the gate. The clamp output is coupled to either the driving i...