US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Oct. 27 for "Circuit device and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,656, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Circuit device and electronic device" was invented by Masaya Ninomiya (Matsumoto, Japan) and Kinya Matsuda (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit device includes a charging circuit and a discharging circuit. The charging circuit is configured to supply a charging current to a battery based on a power supply voltage from a power supply node. The discharging circuit is provided on an output side of the charging circuit, and is configured to discharge a leakage current leaking from the power supply node to the output side of the charging circuit when...