US Patent Issued to DENSO on Aug. 25 for "Power supply monitoring circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,950, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Power supply monitoring circuit" was invented by Takamichi Kubo (Kariya-city, Japan), Yuki Uchida (Kariya-city, Japan), Yoshiaki Katsumi (Kariya-city, Japan) and Masashi Ueno (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply monitoring circuit monitors an in-vehicle power supply in an ECU. The ECU has power supply circuits powered by the in-vehicle power supply through a power supply line and supplying power to a downstream load. The power supply monitoring circuit includes a voltage supply monitoring circuit and a control circuit. The power su...