ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,447, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Step-down voltage regulator" was invented by Carsten List (Walheim, Germany), Hartmut Schumacher (Freiberg, Germany), Ashraf Kamel (Reutlingen, Germany), Roman Vasylenko (Reutlingen, Germany) and Ruediger Karner (Kornwestheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A step-down voltage regulator. The step-down voltage regulator includes a configurable integrated switch circuit, which includes a configurable analysis and control unit, a configurable actuation circuit, compensation circuit, and controllable semiconductor switch, and includes an external w...