US Patent Issued to Kioxia on July 7 for "Charge pump circuit and phase-locked loop circuit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,620, issued on July 7, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Charge pump circuit and phase-locked loop circuit" was invented by Go Urakawa (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a charge pump circuit includes: a current source; a first current mirror including an input terminal connected to the current source; a second current mirror including an input terminal connected to an output terminal of the first current mirror; a third current mirror including an input terminal connected to a first output terminal of the second current mirror; a first switch including a first end connected to a...