ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,987, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Regulator circuit" was invented by Yi Feng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chuan Chu Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yi-Shao Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A regulator circuit includes a slow loop circuit and a fast loop circuit. The slow loop circuit includes an amplifier and a first transistor coupled between an output terminal and a first node. The first transistor adjusts a first voltage of the output terminal. The first voltage is configured as a regulated power source voltage. The fast loop includes multiple power circuits coupled in paral...