ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,618, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Hybrid LDO regulator with fine loop preset" was invented by Minwen Shi (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low dropout regulator with fine loop preset including a coarse resolution regulator and a fine resolution regulator. The coarse resolution regulator adjusts a digital control value in response to an output transient to control a coarse output driver to regulate an output voltage with coarse resolution. The coarse resolution regulator eventually enters a limit-cycle oscillation mode with a corresponding duty cycle. The fine resolution r...