US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on Sept. 15 for "Electronic device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,596, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Japan).

"Electronic device" was invented by Kazuhiko Kinemura (Miyagi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes: a plurality of loads, a switching element provided in a current path connected to the plurality of loads, a failure diagnosis unit that performs failure diagnosis according to voltages applied to the plurality of loads, and a driving circuit that drives the switching element. The driving circuit outputs, to the switching element, a driving control signal that represents a result of comparison between a load signal resulting from c...