ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,694, issued on April 21, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Bias circuit, power on reset circuit, and monitoring system" was invented by Tomokazu Kojima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bias circuit includes a first resistive device connected between a power supply node to supply a supply voltage and a first node, a first N-type transistor diode-connected between the first node and a ground, a second N-type transistor, a second resistive device connected between a second node and a third node, and a third N-type transistor connected between the third node and the ground to implement a current source. The seco...