ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,374, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Push-pull low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator" was invented by Perng-Fei Yuh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yen-Hsiang Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A push-pull Low Dropout (LDO) voltage regulator is provided. An instantaneous output voltage of the push-pull LDO voltage regulator is compared with a first reference voltage and a first output based on comparing the first reference voltage with the instantaneous output voltage is provided. The instantaneous output voltage of the push-pull LDO voltage regulator is compar...