ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,259, issued on March 31, was assigned to Renesas Design (UK) Ltd. (Bourne End, Great Britain).

"Digital low dropout regulator for generating output voltage dependent on DAC code signal" 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) for receiving a reference voltage and generating an output voltage, the digital LDO being synchronized to a clock signal and comprising a first digital to analog converter configured to generate a first DAC code signal, the output voltage being dependent the first DAC code signal, trigger state transitions of the first DAC code ...