ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,841, issued on June 30, was assigned to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Voltage regulator" was invented by Tsung-Lin Chuang (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chuan-Chien Hsu (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chi-Rong Chou (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Wei-Hong Du (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage regulator is provided. The voltage regulator includes an amplifier circuit, a first output stage circuit, a switching circuit, and at least one second output stage circuit. The amplifier circuit includes a non-inverting input node, an inverting input node, a first output node, and a second output node. The non-inverting inp...