US Patent Issued to Richtek Technology on March 3 for "Body bias circuit and body bias generation method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,466, issued on March 3, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Body bias circuit and body bias generation method" was invented by Chih-hsien Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chu-hua Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body bias circuit configured to generate a body bias to a body of a MOS switch. The body bias circuit includes: an intrinsic MOS device having the same conductivity type with the MOS switch and having an intrinsic threshold voltage; and an operational regulation circuit coupled to the intrinsic MOS device and configured to generate the body bias according to a voltage of one terminal of...