ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,524, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal transmission circuit and power conversion apparatus" was invented by Yuto Shibuta (Fukuoka, Japan) and Shohei Higashi (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first circuit generates a transmission signal according to a change in a logical value of a first signal using a first potential as a reference. A transformer includes a first coil to which a transmission signal is input and a second coil inductively coupled to the first coil to output a pair of reception signals. The second circuit generates a second signal by performing comparison with ...