ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,910, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Latch-up mitigated charge pump for high power supply rejection low-dropout regulator" was invented by Bibhu Prasad Das (Philadelphia), Abhishek Bhat (Allentown, Pa.), Kadaba Lakshmikumar (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Romesh Kumar Nandwana (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge-pump based low dropout (LDO) regulator is provided that overcomes latch-up issues. The LDO regulator is a high PSR low noise LDO regulator that uses a latch-up mitigated charge-pump voltage doubler which includes a N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect tran...