ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,099, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Hybrid voltage divider and buck converter circuit" was invented by Sanghwa Jung (Los Gatos, Calif.), Ahmed Abdelmoaty (San Jose, Calif.) and Chunping Song (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a hybrid voltage divider and buck converter circuit. For example, certain aspects provide a power supply circuit, including: a first charge pump coupled between an input voltage (VIN) node of the power supply circuit and a charge pump output node of the power supply circuit, an inductive element having a ...