ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,825, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to MITSUMI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Power supply circuit, voltage monitoring circuit, and power supply device" was invented by Kohei Shibata (Isehara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a power supply monitoring circuit including: a first terminal to which a first voltage as a highest voltage of a battery including cells is connected; a second terminal to which a second voltage as a lowest voltage of the battery is connected; a selection circuit that selects a high potential and a low potential of a cell; an analog-to-digital conversion circuit to which the high and low potenti...