ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,288, issued on May 12, was assigned to EMEMORY TECHNOLOGY INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Voltage selector" was invented by Yun-Chung Lee (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chih-Chun Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage selector includes a first input terminal for receiving a first input voltage, a second input terminal for receiving a second input voltage, an output terminal, a main select circuit and a reference circuit. The main select circuit includes a select unit for outputting a higher input voltage as an output voltage to the output terminal, and an auxiliary unit for pulling up the output voltage to the fi...