US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 2 for "Charge pump for phase locked loop with reduced leakage current" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,448, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Charge pump for phase locked loop with reduced leakage current" was invented by Hao Liu (San Diego), Lejie Lu (San Diego), Yu Song (San Diego) and Dong Ren (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of a charge pump with reduced leakage current are disclosed. An apparatus includes a main branch having two parallel lines of switches and a main branch output, a side branch coupled to the main branch having two parallel lines of switches and a side branch output and a charge pump output at which the main branch output and the side branch output are coupled together...