ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,585, issued on April 14, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Rectifier" was invented by Satoki Taniguchi (Kyoto, Japan) and Kentaro Nasu (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rectifier includes a first transistor of a drain/source common field effect type and a second transistor of a drain/source common field effect type in which the second transistor is diode-connected to the first transistor so as to allow the first transistor to perform a diode operation, and configures a rectifier stage with the first transistor."
The patent was filed on June 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/331,735.
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