ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,124, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Programming voltage supply and programming voltage generating method" was invented by Chung-Zen Chen (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programming voltage supply and a programming voltage generating method are provided. The programming voltage supply includes a plurality of controllers and a plurality of voltage generators. The controllers respectively receive a plurality of cut-off signals, and commonly receive a clock signal. The controllers generate a plurality of activation signals according to the cut-off signals respectively. ...