ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,165, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RichWave Technology Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Protection circuit and protection method" was invented by Che-Sheng Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection circuit including a voltage dividing circuit, a first comparator, a first switch, a second comparator, and a delay and logic circuit is provided. The voltage dividing circuit generates a first divided voltage and a second divided voltage based on a power voltage. The first comparator is configured to compare a reference voltage and the first divided voltage to generate a first comparison result. The second comparator is...