ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,793, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Circuits and methods for controlling efficiency of a charge-pump regulation system at low-load current" was invented by Piyush Agarwal (Bangalore, India), Mukul Agarwal (Bangalore, India), Marthanda Gnanendra Rao (Bangalore, India) and Subodh Prakash Taigor (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control circuit comprises an oscillator generating one or more clock pulse trains with variable clock periods, based on one or more load currents at the output end of the charge pump. The one or more clock pulse trains generated by the...