ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,674, issued on June 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Low-dropout voltage regulator with split-buffer stage" was invented by Varun Upadhyaya (New Delhi) and Venkateswarlu Ramaswamy Tiruvamattur (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for regulating output voltage using a low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator. In an example, an LDO voltage regulator circuit includes a pass circuit that is driven or otherwise controlled by a first buffer circuit, and a sense circuit that is driven or otherwise controlled by a second buffer circuit. The pass circuit is configured to pass current...