US Patent Issued to ROHM on May 26 for "Semiconductor apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,675, issued on May 26, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Semiconductor apparatus" was invented by Tatsuro Shimizu (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first circuit has a predetermined function with an output that has a small dependence on a certain operation condition. A second circuit has the same function as that of the first circuit with an output that has a large dependence on the certain operation condition. When the first circuit is operating normally, the main circuit operates according to the output of the first circuit. The main circuit is capable of generating a detection signal that indicates the cer...