US Patent Issued to ABLIC on March 4 for "Charge/discharge control circuit and battery device provided with same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,164, issued on March 4, was assigned to ABLIC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Charge/discharge control circuit and battery device provided with same" was invented by Sho Hoshino (Tokyo), Takashi Ono (Tokyo) and Yasuhiro Kamijima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a charge/discharge control circuit controllable by a control signal from a controller that is external. The charge/discharge control circuit includes a control circuit configured to, in response to a power-down control signal for transitioning to a power-down state being input from the controller, latch the power-down control signal and block a discharge path from a secondary ...