ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,829, issued on May 20, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Bootstrapped switch" was invented by Shih-Hsiung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bootstrapped switch includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a first capacitor, three switches, and a switch circuit. The switch circuit includes a first switch, a second switch, a second capacitor, and a resistor. The first transistor receives the input voltage and outputs the output voltage. The first terminal of the second transistor receives the input voltage, and the second terminal of the second transistor is coupled to the first ...