US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on March 17 for "Load drive circuit, electronic control device, and control method for electronic control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,484, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Load drive circuit, electronic control device, and control method for electronic control device" was invented by Masato Kita (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Yoichiro Kobayashi (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a highly reliable load drive circuit that includes a switching circuit that selects a power supply voltage, and is capable of seamlessly switching the power supply voltage without using a switch or a determination circuit, an electronic control device using the load drive circuit, and a control method for the electronic c...