ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,297, issued on July 22, was assigned to ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Load switch circuit" was invented by Jia-Ching Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsiang-Jui Hung (Taipei, Taiwan), Min-Hou Kuo (Taipei, Taiwan) and Bo-Siang Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load switch circuit is provided. The load switch circuit includes a control chip and a current limit protection circuit. The control chip is operated at a power supply voltage, configured to receive an input voltage, and controlled by an enable signal to provide an output voltage and an output current to a load. The current limit protection circuit is conf...