US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 25 for "Switch transistor protection device and electric circuit device using the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,234, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Switch transistor protection device and electric circuit device using the same" was invented by Jui-Hsiao Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chun-Ku Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch transistor protection device includes a voltage/current detection device and a determination device. The voltage/current detection device is electrically connected to a switch transistor, and used to detect a voltage of the gate, the body, the source or the drain of the switch transistor, or used to detect a current of the source or the drain of the sw...