US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 23 for "Low noise charge pump circuit" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,503, issued on June 23, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Low noise charge pump circuit" was invented by Tuomas Tuikkanen (Oulu, Finland), Markus Siljander (Oulu, Finland) and Mikko Loikkanen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge pump circuit includes first and second capacitors, first, second, third and fourth switches, and a transistor. The first switch is coupled between a top plate of the first capacitor and a first voltage input terminal. The second switch is coupled between a bottom plate of the first capacitor and a reference voltage terminal. The third switch is coupled between the top plate o...