US Patent Issued to Agile Analog on July 1 for "Low dropout regulator" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,141, issued on July 1, was assigned to Agile Analog Ltd (Great Britain).

"Low dropout regulator" was invented by Mallikarjun Banappagol (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low dropout regulator comprising: a supply voltage connection for receiving a supply voltage; a load voltage output connection for providing a load voltage to a load; load voltage output control circuitry comprising a pass transistor configured to regulate the load voltage based on a voltage at its gate region; adaptive biasing circuitry comprising: a biasing transistor configured to regulate the voltage provided to the gate region of the...