ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,675, issued on June 17, was assigned to SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Fujian, China).

"Low-dropout regulator having bidirectional current adjustment" was invented by Zhen-Yang Pang (Shanghai) and Hao Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-dropout regulator includes a voltage divider circuit, an operation amplifier, a regulator circuit and an output circuit. The voltage divider circuit divides a power supply voltage to generate a predetermined voltage. The operational amplifier generates a bias voltage according to the predetermined voltage and an output voltage of an output terminal. The regulator circuit generates a first ...