ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,303, issued on March 4, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Power supply switch circuit and switch driver circuit" 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 is disclosed. The power supply switch circuit includes a first switch configured to switch a supply of a first power supply voltage to a power supply terminal of a power amplifier; and a switch driving circuit includ...