US Patent Issued to Rohm on May 12 for "Semiconductor device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,293, issued on May 12, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Hideo Hara (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first and a second output transistor on a high and a low side respectively, a first terminal connected to the connection node between the first and second output transistors, and a second terminal configured to be connected via a bootstrap capacitor to the first terminal. The first output transistor is driven based on a voltage between the first and second terminals. A switching circuit is provided between a terminal fed with a predetermine...