ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,893, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Methods to reduce measure current settling time in SMU" was invented by Rajavelu Thinakaran (Bangalore, India) and Gautam Nandi (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques and circuits, described herein, include solutions for reducing measure current settling time in source measurement units (SMUs) during a force voltage mode of operation. An SMU includes a force amplifier having a first voltage input, a second voltage input, a feedback voltage input, and a output. A resistor has a first terminal coupled to the output of the force amplifie...