ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,514, issued on April 15, was assigned to ABLIC Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Mask control circuit, controller including the mask control circuit, charge/discharge control circuit, and battery device" was invented by Takashi Matsuda (Tokyo) and Takashi Ono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operational instability is prevented without compromising the state transition speed. A mask control circuit is a circuit which generates a mask signal masking a control signal during a period in which a voltage level of a monitoring target terminal to be monitored is transitioning. The mask control circuit includes: a first input port which receives a ...