ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,247, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SG MICRO CORP (SUZHOU) (Suzhou City, China).

"Charge pump circuit" was invented by Ziwei Fan (Suzhou City, China), Xiang Yu (Suzhou City, China) and Fei Xiao (Suzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a charge pump circuit, comprising a first switch, a second switch and a flying capacitor. The first switch receives driving voltage when the clock signal is at the first level, while the second switch receives driving voltage at the second level. The flying capacitor charges via the first switch and discharges via the second switch to generate the output vo...