ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,138, issued on May 12, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electrical discharge circuit" was invented by Chung-Yu Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an electrical discharge circuit. A voltage-dividing circuit performs voltage division on a voltage input terminal such that a detection circuit generates a boosted detection signal accordingly. A first inverter is coupled to a first voltage feeding terminal and a second inverter input terminal. A second inverter is coupled to a first inverter output terminal and a ground terminal. An inverter control circuit b...