US Patent Issued to Rohm on Feb. 17 for "Semiconductor device, switching power supply, and lighting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,192, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Semiconductor device, switching power supply, and lighting device" was invented by Akira Aoki (Kyoto, Japan) and Ryo Takagi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For example, a semiconductor device disclosed in the present description is configured to function as a component of a switching power supply, and includes: a current sense signal generator configured to generate a current sense signal by amplifying a sense voltage corresponding to the output current of the switching power supply; a voltage sense signal generator configured to generate a voltage se...