ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,993, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Charge pump based low dropout regulator" was invented by Darshan Chandrashekhar Pande (Aurangabad, India), Chulkyu Lee (San Diego), Sajin V Mohamad (San Diego) and Suresh Naidu Lekkala (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain aspects, a voltage regulator includes a pass transistor coupled between an input of the voltage regulator and an output of the voltage regulator, and an amplifier having a first input coupled to a reference voltage, a second input coupled to the output of the voltage regulator via a feedback path, and an output. The voltage re...