US Patent Issued to ROHM on Sept. 22 for "Current limiting circuit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,453, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Current limiting circuit" was invented by Tomoaki Morita (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a current limiting circuit for limiting an upper limit of an output current to a predetermined value, the current limiting circuit including a current monitor circuit that outputs a monitor voltage according to a first current generated by a first voltage and supplied to an output terminal and an auxiliary power supply circuit to which a second voltage higher than the first voltage is supplied and which supplies a second current to the output termina...