US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on June 17 for "Supply generator / supply modulator with switched-capacitor drive supply" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,801, issued on June 17, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Supply generator / supply modulator with switched-capacitor drive supply" was invented by John R. Hoversten (Arlington, Mass.), David J. Perreault (Cambridge, Mass.), Yevgeniy A. Tkachenko (Belmont, Mass.), Aaron Cook (Deerfield, N.H.) and Kapil Kesarwani (Bedford, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit configured to receive a first and second voltages and generate an output voltage, the circuit comprising: a first capacitor configured to charge to a voltage equal a difference between the first voltage and the output voltage; a second capaci...