ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,331, issued on May 13, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Power detection circuit" was invented by Chia-Chen Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chiting Cheng (Taichung, Taiwan), Wei-jer Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yangsyu Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power detection circuit is provided. The power detection circuit includes a comparator circuit operative to generate an output signal in response to an input signal. The output signal is configured to change from a first value to a second value in response to the input signal attaining a first threshold value. The output signal...