ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,736, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AOI ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Kagawa, Japan).
"Semiconductor relay device" was invented by Yoshiaki Aizawa (Kagawa, Japan) and Shinichi Arioka (Kagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor relay device includes: an oscillator unit configured to output an oscillation signal based on an input signal; a first inductor and a second inductor that are magnetically coupled to each other; a driving unit configured to drive the first inductor based on the oscillation signal output from the oscillator unit; a rectifier unit configured to rectify a signal output by the second inductor; and a c...