US Patent Issued to Danfoss on Nov. 11 for "Vehicle and off-road vehicle ignition sense and control circuit for an electronic control unit (ECU)" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,349, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Danfoss A/S (Nordborg, Denmark).

"Vehicle and off-road vehicle ignition sense and control circuit for an electronic control unit (ECU)" was invented by Rohit Tejsingh Chauhan (Pune, India) and Steven Lee Hum (Minnetonka, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-cost compact ignition sense and control circuit is powered by a battery supply line of a vehicle and receives an ignition input signal indicating the turning ON/OFF of a vehicle. Responsive to the ignition input signal, the ignition sense and control circuit utilizes first and second MOSFETS to control an ON/OFF state of a main interna...