ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,051, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Voltage providing circuit" was invented by Junghan Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage providing circuit includes a charge pump circuit configured to perform a charge pumping operation in response to a comparison signal, and to output a charge-pumped output voltage to an output node, and a voltage adjusting circuit configured to control a voltage of the output node by generating a drive voltage based on a reference voltage selection signal and a sink enable signal, and outputting the drive voltage to the output node. ...