US Patent Issued to SEMTECH on Oct. 27 for "System and method of protecting high voltage circuits from high energy electrical overstress events" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,641, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SEMTECH Corp. (Camarillo, Calif.).

"System and method of protecting high voltage circuits from high energy electrical overstress events" was invented by Lei Hua (Camarillo, Calif.), William Allen Russell (Camarillo, Calif.), Pengcheng Han (Calabasas, Calif.) and Changjun Huang (Oak Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage protection circuit is disclosed that includes a programmable reference voltage circuit configured to receive an input voltage and to generate a reference voltage. An error amplifier stage is coupled to the programmable reference voltage circuit. A voltage limiting...