ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,798, issued on June 16, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Signal generation circuit, switching device, and switching power supply device" was invented by Daichi Yuruki (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazuhiro Murakami (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal generation circuit includes: a reference voltage generation circuit configured to generate a reference voltage; a ramp voltage generation circuit configured to generate a ramp voltage that varies within a predetermined voltage range; and a comparison circuit configured to output a comparison result signal that indicates the magnitude relationship between the referenc...