ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,991, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Adaptive power supply ripple rejection enhancement in voltage regulators" was invented by Pavel Londak (Hutisko Solanec, Czech Republic), Barbara Pankova Maludova (Frydek-Mistek, Czech Republic) and Jan Matej (Ostrava, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A regulator circuit includes a first stage, a second stage, and a boost circuit. The first stage includes a reference input and a feedback input, the feedback input configured to receive feedback from an output of the regulator circuit. The second stage is coupled to the firs...