ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,212, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SMARTER MICROELECTRONICS (GUANG ZHOU) Co. LTD. (Guangzhou, China).

"Band-gap reference source circuit and electronic apparatus" was invented by Chifeng Liu (Guangzhou, China), Yongxiang Li (Guangzhou, China) and Xin Zhang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A band-gap reference source circuit is configured to be connected with an electronic device. The band-gap reference source circuit comprises: a power supply, a start circuit, a core circuit, an output circuit and a shunt circuit, wherein the power supply is connected to first ends of the start circuit, the core circuit and the o...