ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,545, issued on July 15, was assigned to LAPIS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Regulator circuit" was invented by Takayoshi Fujino (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A regulator circuit includes an operational amplifier that generates a differential voltage representing a difference between a voltage obtained by dividing an output voltage and a reference voltage. The regulator circuit further includes a first current path that allows through a first current corresponding to the differential voltage, a current mirror circuit that is connected to the first current path and that sends to an output terminal an output ...