US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on Aug. 12 for "Power supply circuit and control method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,373, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Power supply circuit and control method thereof" was invented by Li Cheng Chu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply circuit includes a voltage generator circuit, an overcurrent protection circuit, and a power switch circuit. The voltage generator circuit is configured to generate a first voltage. The overcurrent protection circuit is configured to generate a comparison voltage according to a reference voltage and a sensing voltage. A voltage clamping circuit in the overcurrent protection circuit is configured to generate a...