US Patent Issued to Rohm on Feb. 24 for "Switching device, electronic device, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,732, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Switching device, electronic device, and vehicle" was invented by Naoki Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan) and Shuntaro Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching device, for example, includes a P-type semiconductor substrate configured to be fed with a ground voltage, a switching element connected between an application terminal for a supply voltage and an application terminal for an output voltage, a driver configured to turn on and off the switching element, and an active clamp circuit configured to control the switching element so as to keep the ...