ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,517, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Low dropout voltage regulator including power supply noise suppression circuit" was invented by Ashwith Jerome Rego (Bangalore, India), Raghav Gupta (Bangalore, India), Burcin Serter Ergun (Poway, Calif.) and Sajin Mohamad (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, including: an upper voltage rail; a lower voltage rail; a low dropout (LDO) voltage regulator configured to generate a regulated output voltage at an output coupled between the upper voltage rail and the lower voltage rail while transferring noise from the upper voltage rail to the output; and...