ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,235, issued on June 2, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Voltage regulator with saturation prevention" was invented by Rinu Mathew (Bangalore, India), Harikrishna P (Bangalore, India) and Venkatesh Kadlimatti (Hubli, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In described examples, a low dropout voltage regulator includes an input voltage terminal, a resistive element, first and second transistors, an output terminal, a differential amplifier, and first and second saturation prevention circuits. The resistive element is coupled between the input voltage terminal and a gate of the first transistor. The output terminal is coup...