ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,619, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"LDO output power-on glitch removal circuit" was invented by Lynn Yun Kong (Lexington, Mass.), Yi Yang (Malden, Mass.) and Bo Zhou (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage regulator circuit for supplying a voltage to an input of a subsequent circuit element, the voltage regulator circuit comprising: a power supply, an output adapted to deliver a regulated output voltage, a first transistor connected between the power supply and the output for controlling the output voltage, a differential amplifier configured to provide a feedback to the fir...