ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,485, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Output circuit and related control method with pumping compensation" was invented by Jen-Yi Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output circuit includes an output driver, a voltage regulator, a control circuit and a charge pump circuit. The output driver includes a signal input terminal, a signal output terminal and a first power receiving terminal. The voltage regulator is coupled to the first power receiving terminal of the output driver. The control circuit is coupled to the signal input terminal of the output driver. The ch...