ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,660, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Canada Inc. (Ottawa).

"Power transistor circuit that generates internal voltage supply" was invented by Nan Xing (Allen, Texas), Robert Wayne Mounger (Dallas), Lucas Andrew Milner (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Krishnaswamy Nagaraj (Ashburn, Va.), Sridhar Ramaswamy (Allen, Texas), Yinglai Xia (Plano, Texas) and Edward MacRobbie (Nepean, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transistor circuit suppling an internal voltage to an internal voltage supply node. The power transistor circuit includes external terminals, to each of which signals and/or voltages are applied, for each o...