ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,048, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Signal transmitting apparatus" was invented by Shinya Masuda (Kyoto, Japan) and Masaki Itasaka (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output terminal is connected to an application terminal of a power supply voltage via a pull-up resister and a backcurrent prevention diode. An output transistor is disposed between the output terminal and a ground. A capacitor is connected between the gate of the output transistor and the output terminal. A charge-discharge circuit charges or discharges the gate of the output transistor in accordance with an input signal...