ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,238, issued on June 2, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Dual low-power high-power mode voltage regulator without external compensation" was invented by Jose Tejada Gomez (Valencia, Spain), Santiago Iriarte (Puzol, Spain) and Ruben Salvador (Valencia, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present subject matter relates to an electronic system comprising gated circuitry, a first regulator circuit directly coupled to the gated circuitry, always-on circuitry, a second regulator circuit directly coupled to the always-on circuitry, and a switch circuit coupled between an output of the first re...