ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,803, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Voltage regulator comprising a charge pump circuit" was invented by Laura Capecchi (Vedano al Lambro, Italy), Marcella Carissimi (Treviolo, Italy), Marco Pasotti (Travaco' Siccomario, Italy) and Paolo Romele (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments, a voltage regulator has an input node to receive an input voltage and an output node. The voltage regulator has a charge pump circuit that receives a boosting control signal to boost the input voltage based on the boosting control signal. The voltage regulator further...