ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,453, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Switching power supply device, switching control device, and industrial equipment" was invented by Kazuhiro Horii (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching power supply device includes a switching element and a controller. The controller includes a current source circuit, a voltage source circuit, a PWM signal generation circuit, a capacitor of which the first terminal is connected to the current source circuit and of which the second terminal is connected to the PWM signal generation circuit, a one-way conduction element provided between the first ...