ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,520, issued on July 14, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Power supply rejection ratio enhancment techniques for low dropout regulators" was invented by Debopam Banerjee (Bangalore, India) and Guru Kumar Vanganuru (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described to improve the high frequency PSRR in LDOs, such as LDOs providing load currents in excess of 120 mA and about a 200 millivolt (mV) dropout. In addition, techniques are described to current limit the LDO and improve the stability of load current dependent pole-zero placement."

The patent was filed on Feb. 6...