ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,502, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Semiconductor device, semiconductor system and switching power device" was invented by Yukihiro Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device, including: a synchronous input terminal; a synchronous output terminal; a functional circuit, having a reference clock signal generating circuit operable to generate a reference clock signal; a signal output circuit, connected to the synchronous output terminal; and a mode setting circuit, for setting an operation mode of the functional circuit and the signal ou...