ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,657, issued on March 11, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Shift device and vehicle electronic control unit" was invented by Masaru Matsubara (Kariya, Japan), Motofumi Miyake (Kariya, Japan) and Kazunori Takagi (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shift device includes: a motor drive circuit; a motor driver unit for driving the motor drive circuit; a control unit that controls the motor driver unit; a motor power supply path; a system power supply path; and a buck-boost unit that converts electric power supplied from the system power supply path to a predetermined voltage and outputs the voltage. Electric power...