ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,109, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method for performing a charge-sharing operation and a charge pump circuit therefor" was invented by Ravindra Kumar Singh (Bengaluru, India), Mihir Dhagat (Bengaluru, India) and Subodh Prakash Taigor (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a charge pump circuit with a six-phase clock. The charge pump circuit comprises a six-phase clock circuit and a gate boosting charge pump configured to receive a plurality of clock signals from the six-phase clock circuit. The six-phase clock circuit includes p...