US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Jan. 20 for "Surge protection circuit and surge protection method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,406, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Surge protection circuit and surge protection method" was invented by Kenji Hirose (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a surge protection circuit including a printed circuit board; a surge absorber disposed on the printed circuit board; a member having conductivity and magnetism, and extending in a direction orthogonal to a face of the printed circuit board; and a conductor wire having an end connected to the surge absorber and another end connected to the member, formed in such a way as to extend from a point of intersection between a plane pa...