US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 1 for "Switched-capacitor fast start-up scheme for bandgap circuits" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,444, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Switched-capacitor fast start-up scheme for bandgap circuits" was invented by Aravind Mahesh Buduguppa (Cork, Ireland) and Przemyslaw Jan Mroszczyk (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including: a bandgap voltage generating circuit, including: a first current path including a first field effect transistor (FET) coupled in series with a first bipolar junction transistor (BJT) between an upper voltage rail and a lower voltage rail; a second current path including a second FET coupled in series with a resistor and a second BJT between the upper vo...