ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,446, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to u-blox AG (Thalwil, Switzerland).

"Low-dropout regulator circuit and electronic device" was invented by Dimitrios Anagnostopoulos (Maroussi, Greece), Fani Liakou (Maroussi, Greece), Samuel Blatter (Thalwil, Switzerland) and Thomas Christen (Thalwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-dropout regulator circuit comprises a pass element (PE) between a supply terminal (VDD) and an output terminal (OUT) for providing an output voltage (vout). A control block (CB) is configured to control the pass element (PE) based on a difference between a feedback voltage (vfb) and a reference volt...