ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,518, issued on July 14, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindoven, Netherlands).

"Voltage regulator with separately selectable output stage units and method of configuring the same" was invented by Sebastien Darfeuille (Graz, Austria) and Marco Lammers (Neerkant, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a voltage regulator is provided, comprising: a core and an output stage configured to be coupled to the core, wherein said output stage comprises a set of output stage units; a switch unit comprising a plurality of controllable switches, wherein said controllable switches are con...