US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on May 13 for "Flipped voltage follower low-dropout regulator with frequency compensation" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,795, issued on May 13, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Flipped voltage follower low-dropout regulator with frequency compensation" was invented by Achal Kathuria (Sunnyvale, Canada), Tom Moiannou (Markham, Canada), Pradeep Jayaraman (San Jose, Calif.) and Karthik Gopalakrishnan (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage regulator includes an input power supply node, an output regulated power supply node, a flipped voltage follower circuit, and a compensation capacitor. The flipped voltage follower circuit includes an output transistor configured as a common-source amplifier circuit...