US Patent Issued to Rohm on Oct. 20 for "Overcurrent protection circuit and power supply device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,112, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Overcurrent protection circuit and power supply device" was invented by Tatsuya Okada (Kyoto, Japan), Atsuhiro Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan), Toyokazu Katsumi (Kyoto, Japan), Shinji Takizawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Daisaku Shugo (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overcurrent protection circuit includes a first mirror transistor configured to be driven by a first drive signal, common to a first output transistor, so as to pass a first mirror current, a second mirror transistor configured to be driven by a second drive signal so as to pass a second mirror current,...