US Patent Issued to Quanta Computer on Oct. 6 for "Power supply over-voltage protection system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,178, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Quanta Computer Inc. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Power supply over-voltage protection system" was invented by Chih-Chang Tsai (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Kuang-Hua Ou Yang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Shu-Chen Ni (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply over-voltage protection (OVP) system includes a transistor having a source terminal configured to connect to a power supply output terminal of a power supply. The transistor has a drain terminal configured to connect to a system load, and a body diode forward voltage drop. The power supply OVP system further includes a low voltag...