ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,444, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Power supply switch circuit and operating method thereof" was invented by Jeonghoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongok Ha (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngwong Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Shinichi Iizuka (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyejin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply switch circuit includes a switch circuit including a first switch configured to switch a first power source voltage to a power supply terminal of a power amplifier, and a second switch configured to switch a second power source ...