ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,336, issued on June 30, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Power supply controller" was invented by Hironori Oku (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply controller controls operation of a power supply apparatus that generates an output voltage from an input voltage. The power supply controller includes a temperature determination circuit configured to determine to which of a plurality of temperature ranges a temperature of the power supply controller belongs, a measurement circuit configured to measure, for each of the plurality of temperature ranges, a period for which the temperature of the power sup...