ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,691, issued on May 26, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Compensation for redundant current limit architecture for safety devices" was invented by Ganapathi Shankar Krishnamurthy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a circuit includes a transistor and a first amplifier having an output coupled to a control terminal of the transistor. The circuit includes a second amplifier having a second amplifier output coupled to the control terminal of the transistor. The circuit includes a resistor-capacitor network. The circuit also includes a first switch coupled to the first amplifier output, the tran...