ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,631, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to UPI SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

"Monitoring signal generation circuit of smart power stage and method thereof" was invented by Yow-Tsyr Liang (Zhubei City, Taiwan) and Chi-Ping Lin (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring signal generation circuit of a SPS and method thereof is disclosed. The SPS provides an output current. The monitoring signal generation circuit provides a current monitoring signal related to the output current. The monitoring signal generation circuit includes a simulation current circuit and a control circuit. The simulation current ci...