ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,621, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Low dropout regulator" was invented by Yi Feng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hsueh-Yu Kao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low dropout regulator includes output terminal circuit and amplifier. The output terminal circuit is configured to generate output voltage according to input voltage and is configured to generate feedback voltage according to the output voltage. The amplifier is configured to generate control voltage to the output terminal circuit according to reference voltage and the feedback voltage, so as to adjust the output voltag...