US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Sept. 8 for "Distributed control device and distributed control system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,157, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Distributed control device and distributed control system" was invented by Shinji Ozaki (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a distributed control device including a first power supply circuit that outputs a first power supply voltage, a power failure detection circuit that outputs a power failure notification signal, a first drive power supply circuit that outputs a first drive voltage, a second drive power supply circuit that outputs a second drive voltage, a control circuit operated by using the first drive voltage, and a first drive dev...