ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,137, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Canada Inc. (Ottawa).

"Negative voltage generator" was invented by Ashutosh Kumar (Patna, India), Abhishek Jain (Delhi, India), Suraj Somashekara Kumar (Bantwal Taluk, India), Ramesh G. Karpur (Bangalore, India), Ashutosh Ravindra Joharapurkar (Bangalore, India), Zhemin Zhang (Allen, Texas), Yalong Li (Allen, Texas), Rohan Samsi (Milpitas, Calif.) and Marco A. Zuniga (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit that is capable of generating a negative voltage on a negative voltage supply node. The circuit includes a negative voltage generation circuit, an osc...