US Patent Issued to Rohm on Sept. 15 for "Semiconductor device and motor driving system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,816, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Semiconductor device and motor driving system" was invented by Hisashi Sugie (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip on which a semiconductor integrated circuit is formed, a plurality of leads disposed around the semiconductor chip, chip-directed wires connecting leads to the semiconductor chip, and a package sealing those. The semiconductor integrated circuit senses a sensing target current flowing through a sense resistor based on the voltage drop across the sense resistor, and performs predetermined op...