ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,455, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Regulated charge pump with adaptive drive strength" was invented by Semen Syroiezhin (Erlangen, Germany), Andreas Baenisch (Grunwald, Germany), Stephan Leuschner (Linz, Austria) and Andreas Wickmann (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A regulated charge pump includes a comparator having a first input coupled to an output of the regulated charge pump, a second input configured for receiving a reference voltage, and an output for generating an output voltage representing a difference between a charging current of the regulated charge pu...