US Patent Issued to Lion Semiconductor on Dec. 30 for "Switched capacitor regulators with flying-inverter-controlled power switches" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. RE50,720, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Lion Semiconductor Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Switched capacitor regulators with flying-inverter-controlled power switches" was invented by Alberto Alessandro Angelo Puggelli (Cupertino, Calif.), Zhipeng Li (Fremont, Calif.) and Thomas Li (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching capacitor regulator, comprising: a switching capacitor configured to switch between a first state and a second state, wherein, in the first state, a first node of the switching capacitor is coupled to a second terminal, and a second node of the switching capacitor is coupled to a fixed voltage level, ...