ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,375, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to protect circuitry from overcurrent conditions" was invented by Supriyo Palit (Kolkata, India), Arthur Brown (Richardson, Texas) and Mohammad Atiqur Rahman (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes: programmable circuitry configured to execute machine-readable instructions to: receive first voltages representative of an input signal; receive second voltages and currents, the second voltages and currents representative of voltages and currents of filter circuitry responsive to the first voltages; and det...