ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,802, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Xiamen, China).

"Power detector device and power detection method" was invented by Xiang Zhang (Shanghai), Kai Sun (Shanghai), Ze-Wei He (Shanghai), Jian-Feng Xue (Shanghai) and Wei-Ping Wang (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power detector device includes a voltage generator circuit, a reference circuit, a level hold circuit and a comparator circuit. The voltage generator circuit generates a bias voltage and a detection voltage according to a power supply voltage. The reference circuit generates a first reference voltage according to the power s...