ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,869, issued on July 21, was assigned to Renesas Design (UK) Ltd. (Bourne End, Great Britain).
"Digital low dropout regulator" was invented by Julian Tyrrell (Swindon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital low dropout regulator (LDO) that receives a reference voltage and generates an output voltage. A comparison circuit of the LDO compares a reference voltage and a feedback voltage, and generates an error signal that is dependent on the comparison. A digital to analog converter of the LDO is operable in a panic mode in which the digital to analog converter receives the error signal, generates a DAC code signal, calcul...