US Patent Issued to Richtek Technology on July 7 for "Switch circuit with soft start and switch control circuit and method thereof" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,610, issued on July 7, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Switch circuit with soft start and switch control circuit and method thereof" was invented by James Herr (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch control circuit, for controlling a path switch and a current sense resistor connected in series between an input voltage and an output voltage, includes: an amplifier, which controls the gate voltage of the path switch based on a voltage drop across the current sense resistor to perform current-limited soft start; a slope detection circuit, coupled to the output voltage, for monitoring the ri...