ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,192, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Bootstrap circuit and communication device including the same" was invented by Sangheon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jungho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngjae Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Michael Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bootstrap circuit for generating an output signal through a pre-charge operation and a sample operation, includes: a sampler including a sampling switch configured to sample an input signal, a first protection switch connected between an input node and the sampling switch, and a sec...