ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,464, issued on June 23, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Semiconductor integrated circuit device and vehicle" was invented by Yuji Kaneda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor integrated circuit device with a signal processing circuit configured to process a received signal, includes: a failure detection circuit configured to detect a failure within the semiconductor integrated circuit device; and an output terminal, wherein if the failure is not detected by the failure detection circuit, an output signal of the signal processing circuit is output externally from the output terminal, and wherein i...