US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries U.S. on Dec. 23 for "Charge pump with pass transistor controlled by a supplementary charge pump stage" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,405, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Charge pump with pass transistor controlled by a supplementary charge pump stage" was invented by Siva Kumar Chinthu (Bangalore, India), Palle Sundar Veerendranath (Bangalore, India), Sunil Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Lalit Mohan Dani (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a charge pump circuit including: a single primary charge pump stage or multiple primary charge pump stages connected in series; a pass transistor connected between an output node of the primary charge pump stage (or of the last of the multiple primary charge pu...