US Patent Issued to ABLIC on Aug. 4 for "Reference current source" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,411, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ABLIC Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Reference current source" was invented by Yasuhiro Kamijima (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reference current source 100 includes a reference voltage circuit 110, generating a reference voltage Vref; a voltage division circuit 130, dividing the reference voltage Vref and outputting a divided voltage Vdiv; and an output MOS transistor 140, supplying a reference current Iref in response to the divided voltage Vdiv being applied to a gate terminal 140G. The reference voltage circuit 110 includes a depletion type MOS transistor 111, and an enhancement type...