US Patent Issued to SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 12 for "Voltage detection device and voltage protection method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,971, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Fujian, China).

"Voltage detection device and voltage protection method" was invented by Wei-Ping Wang (Taiwan, Taiwan), Wei-Chih Cheng (Taiwan, Taiwan) and Yen-Ping Liu (Taiwan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage detection device includes a voltage divider circuit, a comparator circuit and a switch control circuit. The voltage divider circuit operates in a first mode based on a switching signal and divides a power voltage to generate an input voltage. The comparator circuit compares the input voltage with a set of reference voltages to generate a detecti...