US Patent Issued to pSemi on April 7 for "Adaptive charge pump voltage supply frequency switch" (New Hampshire, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,857, issued on April 7, was assigned to pSemi Corp. (San Diego).

"Adaptive charge pump voltage supply frequency switch" was invented by Gary Chunshien Wu (San Diego) and Gregory Szczeszynski (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuits and methods that enable a charge pump to provide sufficient charge to the gate of a switch NFET to turn the NFET ON within a specified switching time requirement but with minimal generation of electronic noise. An embodiment includes a dual-oscillator circuit configured to output from a first oscillator a first frequency signal from a first oscillator during normal operation, and to output fro...