ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,021, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ADVANTEST Corp. (Tokyo).
"Protective circuit and switch control device" was invented by Kiyotaka Kasahara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protective circuit that protects a semiconductor switch includes a group of terminals consisting of either one or more input terminals and two or more output terminals, or one or more output terminals and two or more input terminals, a first resistive circuit, connected to one of the terminals, comprising a resistor having a first temperature coefficient of resistance; and a second resistive circuit, connected to another one of the terminals, comprisi...