US Patent Issued to PowerX Semiconductor on June 30 for "Power stage circuit and virtual current signal generation method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,332, issued on June 30, was assigned to PowerX Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Power stage circuit and virtual current signal generation method" was invented by Bo-Zhou Ke (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Sheng-An Ko (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power stage circuit includes a switch circuit, a driving circuit and a current monitoring circuit. The driving circuit drives the switch circuit according to a control signal to generate an output current signal. The current monitoring circuit includes a current sensing circuit, a virtual current signal generation circuit and a signal combination circuit...