ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,671, issued on June 17, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Startup circuit and bandgap circuit" was invented by Jia-Wun Syu (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A startup circuit and a bandgap circuit are provided. The startup circuit includes a start referencing circuit and a driving circuit. The start referencing circuit is configured to receive an enabling signal ramping from a disabled voltage level to an enabled voltage level to generate a reference signal. The driving circuit has an input end coupled to the start referencing circuit and an output end coupled to an operational amplifier cir...