ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,144, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).
"Modulator" was invented by Shotaro Wada (Nisshin, Japan), Tomohiro Nezuka (Nisshin, Japan) and Yoshikazu Furuta (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modulator includes an integrator, an input chopping switch, and output chopping switch, and a control circuit. The integrator has a differential amplifier, a first switch and a series circuit. The first switch is connected between input and output terminals of the differential amplifier. The series circuit is connected ...