US Patent Issued to Magnachip Mixed-Signal on March 18 for "Slew rate acceleration circuit and buffer circuit including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,654, issued on March 18, was assigned to Magnachip Mixed-Signal Ltd. (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

"Slew rate acceleration circuit and buffer circuit including the same" was invented by Dukmin Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyeongwoo Kim (Siheung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slew rate acceleration circuit in a buffer circuit, is configured at least to detect a current flowing through a load stage of the buffer circuit, compare a value of the detected current with a reference value, and supply an adjusting driving voltage to an output stage of the buffer circuit based on results of the comparison for increasing a slew...