ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,093, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Switching power supply device, switching control device, and vehicle-mounted appliance" was invented by Kosuke Sato (Kyoto, Japan), Tetsuo Tateishi (Kyoto, Japan), Shingo Hashiguchi (Kyoto, Japan), Isao Takobe (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuhei Yamaguchi (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching power supply device includes a first switch with a first terminal connectable to an application terminal for the input voltage and a second terminal connectable to the first terminal of an inductor; a second switch with a first terminal connectable to the first termin...