Patent 7466584 was granted and assigned to Ovonyx on December, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An electronic system includes a control device in combination with an ovonic threshold switch (OTS). The control device, which may be a field effect transistor, a bipolar junction transistor, or a three-terminal ovonic threshold switch, for example, is configured to trigger the OTS. The OTS, a high current-density device, may be configured to drive greater loads than the control device itself would be capable of driving.