ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,636, issued on March 31, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Power supply semiconductor device, including a delay circuit to protect power transistor" was invented by Isao Takobe (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a power supply semiconductor device used in a switched capacitor converter including a plurality of power transistors and a plurality of capacitors, the switched capacitor converter configured to turn on and off the plurality of power transistors according to a predetermined pattern to generate an output voltage from an input voltage. The power supply semiconductor device includes a...