ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,326, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ABLIC INC. (Nagano, Japan).
"Voltage regulator" was invented by Atsushi Haruyama (Nagano, Japan), Yasuhiko Ogura (Nagano, Japan) and Teruo Suzuki (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a voltage regulator capable of suppressing a current consumption in a non-regulation state with a simple circuit configuration. The voltage regulator includes an output transistor supplying an output voltage based on a control voltage, an error amplifier circuit supplying an amplified signal obtained by amplifying a difference between a voltage based on the output voltage and a reference voltag...