ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,410, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Source/sink LDO with reduced dead band" was invented by Richard Todd Owen (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A source/sink LDO is provided with a pre-amplifier that pre-amplifies an error voltage equaling a difference between an output voltage and a reference voltage. The resulting pre-amplification reduces the dead band for the source/sink LDO by the gain of the pre-amplifier."
The patent was filed on Aug. 5, 2024, under Application No. 18/794,271.
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