ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,726, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ANPEC ELECTRONICS Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Power supply protection circuit with surge suppression and method thereof" was invented by Chun-Kai Hsu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chih-Heng Su (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply protection circuit with surge suppression and a method thereof are provided. The power supply protection circuit used in the power converter includes a discharge circuit and a surge suppression circuit. The surge detection circuit determines whether the discharge conditions are compliant based on the control signal of the low-side switch in the ...