ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,122, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ANPEC ELECTRONICS Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Surge suppression protection circuit" was invented by Shih-Chung Wei (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surge suppression protection circuit is provided. The surge suppression protection circuit includes an input voltage detector circuit, a reference voltage generator circuit, an operational amplifier and a first switch component. A first terminal of the first switch component is coupled with an input voltage. A second terminal of the first switch component is grounded. A control terminal of the first switch component is connected to an...