ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,070, issued on April 14, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Voltage reference circuit and a power management unit" was invented by Chutham Sawigun (Leuven, Belgium) and Xiaolin Yang (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage reference circuit comprises: first transistor, second transistor, first regulating transistor, and second regulating transistor arranged in a stacked connection, wherein first voltage is provided at first node between first and second transistor, second voltage is provided at second node between second transistor and first regulating transistor, third voltage is provided at third node be...