ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,482, issued on March 17, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Switching power supply device" was invented by Takashi Asahi (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching power supply device includes an on-timing generation circuit that generates an on-timing signal for turning on a switching element. The on-timing generation circuit includes: an error amplifier that outputs an error amplification signal obtained by amplifying a difference between a feedback voltage and a reference voltage; a common voltage generation unit that generates a common voltage; a ripple signal generation unit that generates a ...