ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,187, issued on June 3, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Low dropout voltage regulator having a transistor assembly" was invented by Jimmy Fort (Puyloubier, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a voltage regulator supplying a first voltage on a first output node and comprising a first input transistor of a non-inverting stage and a second biasing transistor of the non-inverting stage. The first and second transistors are coupled in series, in this order, between the first node and a second node of application of a second reference voltage. The second transistor is being configured to be ...