ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,909, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Fast settled and transient low dropout (LDO) regulator" was invented by Mohammad Wasim Sayed (Bangalore, India), Raghav Gupta (Bangalore, India), Rakesh Kumar Sinha (Bangalore, India), Burcin Serter Ergun (Poway, Calif.) and Ashwith Jerome Rego (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage regulator includes a pass transistor coupled between an input and an output of the voltage regulator, and an amplifier having a first input configured to receive a reference voltage, and a second input coupled to the output of the voltage regulator via a feedback path....