ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,799, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Charge pump rectifier" was invented by Arvind Gupta (New Delhi), Kashyap Barot (Bangalore, India) and Sreeram Nasum S (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a charge pump stage and a common-mode filter. The charge pump stage includes first and second transistors, and first and second capacitors. The second transistor has a first terminal coupled to a control terminal of the first transistor, has a second terminal, and has a control terminal coupled to a first terminal of the first transistor. The first capacitor is coupled between a s...