ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,260, issued on March 31, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Low-dropout regulator with auto-adjusting stability compenstion circuit" was invented by Hui-Chun Wang (Zhubei City, Taiwan) and Hua-Chun Tseng (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-dropout regulator with an automatic adjustment stability compensation circuit is provided. The low-dropout regulator includes an analog positive power supply; a compensation circuit; a PMOS; an error amplifier; a reference voltage; a load capacitance; a soft start circuit; a first resistor; and a second resistor. The drain of the PMOS is connect...