US Patent Issued to DENSO on June 2 for "Switch drive device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,112, issued on June 2, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Switch drive device" was invented by Yosuke Watanabe (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch driving device for driving an upper arm switch, which is a switch on an upper arm, and a lower arm switch, which is a switch on a lower arm, where the upper arm and lower arm switches are electrically connected in series with each other. In the switch driving device, a determiner is configured to determine, for each of the upper arm and lower arm switches, whether the switch is on or off, and a driver is configured to, in response to the determiner determi...