ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,553, issued on July 15, was assigned to AUTOCHIPS WUHAN Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Overshoot protection circuit, method, and chip" was invented by Junfeng Chen (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overshoot protection circuit, a method, and a chip. The overshoot protection circuit includes: a low drop regulator (LDO), a reference source circuit, a switching controller, and a rough reference voltage generation circuit. The switching controller is configured to control the LDO to be connected to the rough reference voltage generation circuit in a first stage of power supply signal change, connected to the reference source cir...