ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,233, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).
"Semiconductor device, power storage device, battery management circuit, electronic component, vehicle, and electronic device" was invented by Takayuki Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Kei Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Shuji Fukai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management circuit, a battery protection circuit, a power storage device, a semiconductor device, a vehicle, and an electronic device, or the like with a novel structure, a low power consumption structure, or a highly integrated struc...