ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,435, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).
"Power limiting circuits" was invented by Chun-Ku Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jui-Hsiao Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power limiting circuit is provided to control operation power of a power device during operation. The power limiting circuit includes a detection circuit and a control circuit. The detection circuit is coupled to the power device. The detection circuit is configured to detect a cross voltage between an input terminal and an output terminal of the power device and generate at least one detection signa...