ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,094, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Area efficient LV NMOS TWL charge pump" was invented by Ankit Rehani (Burari, India), V.S.N.K. Chaitanya G (Bengaluru, India) and Pradeep Anantula (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application generally discloses systems and methods of generating a voltage waveform having an amplitude three times an input voltage amplitude using a plurality of low voltage (LV) triple well (TWL) N-type field effect devices. The method includes: receiving a first input voltage at a first input of a double switch charge transfer switch (CTS) circu...