US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on May 20 for "Bandgap reference generation for multiple power supply domains" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,656, issued on May 20, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Bandgap reference generation for multiple power supply domains" was invented by Bang Li Liang (Ottawa) and Gregory Edward Babcock (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for bandgap reference generators are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a bandgap reference generator includes a low voltage bandgap reference circuit that generates a first bandgap reference voltage, a high voltage bandgap reference circuit that generates a second bandgap reference voltage, a bandgap selector circuit that outputs the first bandgap reference voltage...