US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 15 for "Systems and methods for power regulation in over-drive LDO" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,980, issued on July 15, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Systems and methods for power regulation in over-drive LDO" was invented by Mei-Chen Chuang (Pingtung County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for controlling power down of an overdrive low drop out regulator circuits. The system is designed with a low dropout regulator circuit configured to operate in a safe operating area range of operation with very low current. The circuit contains a regulator, a current boost, and a power down switch. The current boost is responsive to a power down signal,...