ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,522, issued on April 21, was assigned to MITSUMI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor integrated circuit device" was invented by Chuhei Terada (Isehara, Japan) and Yoichi Takano (Hadano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes the following. An output transistor is connected between a voltage input terminal and a voltage output terminal. A control circuit controls an on state or an off state of the output transistor. An overcurrent detection circuit is capable of detecting a current that is a predetermined value or more flowing in the output transistor. A retry circuit generates a...