US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Sept. 1 for "Bootstrapped switch circuit" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,193, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Bootstrapped switch circuit" was invented by Shih-Hsiung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch circuit has an input terminal and an output terminal and includes a first capacitor, a second capacitor, five switches, and a switch group. Two terminals of the first capacitor are a first node and a second node. Two terminals of the second capacitor are a third node and a fourth node. The switch group is coupled to the first node, the second node, the third node, and the fourth node. The switch circuit is turned on or off accord...