ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,467, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Voltage regulator and reference voltage generation circuit" was invented by Jin-Yan Syu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chih-Chen Li (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reference voltage generation circuit includes a voltage conversion circuit, a voltage divider, a reference voltage generator, an error amplifier, and a control circuit. The voltage conversion circuit is configured to convert an input voltage to an output voltage according to a first control signal. The voltage divider performs a voltage division operation on the output voltage...