ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,387, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Kinetic Technologies International Holdings LP (Toronto).

"Transient voltage surge protection circuit" was invented by Hiu Fai Leung (Hong Kong), Chi Kin Wong (Hong Kong) and King Chun Fung (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transient voltage surge protection circuit includes a discharge transistor having a drain coupled to a first point of a voltage input bus, and a source coupled to ground; an RC string having a first capacitor and a first resistor coupled in series; a first charge transistor having a drain coupled to the drain of the discharge transistor, a source coupled to the gate ...