US Patent Issued to OMRON HEALTHCARE on June 30 for "Protection circuit and charging equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,258, issued on June 30, was assigned to OMRON HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Protection circuit and charging equipment" was invented by Kosuke Abe (Kyoto, Japan) and Shuhei Munehira (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection circuit includes a P-type MOSFET, a first electrical path connecting a contact positive electrode terminal and a drain terminal of the P-type MOSFET, a second electrical path connecting the positive electrode terminal and a source terminal of the P-type MOSFET, a first N-type MOSFET, a grounded third electrical path connecting a second contact negative electrode terminal and the drain termina...