US Patent Issued to Rohm on May 19 for "Output driver" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,738, issued on May 19, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Output driver" was invented by Kenichi Yoshimura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output driver includes a first output signal generator that generates based on a first input signal a first output signal to feed it to the control terminal of a first protection element; a second output signal generator that generates based on a second input signal a second output signal to feed it to the control terminal of a second protection element; and a PN junction structure connected between an output terminal and a power terminal. In normal operation, the first ...