ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,740, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Ethernovia Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Circuits for providing power supply using floating capacitive supply" was invented by Klaas Bult (Bosch en Duin, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include methods and circuits for providing power supply to circuits using floating capacitive supply. A circuit includes a power supply, a capacitor, an analog circuit, a first plurality of switches communicatively coupled between the power supply and the capacitor, and a second plurality of switches communicatively coupled between the capacitor and the analog circuit. The first pluralit...