ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,955, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN (Kyoto, Japan).

"Current leakage detection circuit, and battery state detection circuit" was invented by Takuya Ishii (Osaka, Japan), Ginga Katase (Kyoto, Japan) and Shuya Yamasaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current leakage detection circuit that detects current leakage from a battery having a first electrode and a second electrode, which is either the positive electrode or the negative electrode opposite to the first electrode, to a chassis includes: a detection circuit including a reference voltage source terminal, a first detection ter...