US Patent Issued to Novatek Microelectronics on March 31 for "Charge pump circuit and operating method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,637, issued on March 31, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Charge pump circuit and operating method thereof" was invented by Tsung-Ying Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yung-Chou Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Tzu-Hsien Yang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge pump circuit including a voltage converter and a pre-charging circuit is provided. The voltage converter is configured to receive a first voltage, and convert the first voltage into a second voltage. The first voltage is larger than the second voltage. The pre-charging circuit is coupled to the voltage converter. The pre-c...