ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,225, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Clamping circuit and offset OTA circuit thereof" was invented by Min-Hung Hu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamping circuit for clamping its voltage difference between its first and second terminals includes: an offset operational trans-conductance amplification (OTA) circuit for generating an output current according to a differential mode voltage between its first and second terminals which have a common mode offset voltage; and an amplifier circuit for generating a first terminal voltage according to the output current of t...