US Patent Issued to DENSO, MIRISE Technologies, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 11 for "Reference current source" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,325, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan), MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Reference current source" was invented by Kofi Afolabi Anthony Makinwa (Delft, Netherlands) and Zhong Tang (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reference current source includes first and second semiconductor elements, a conversion resistor, an amplifier, and a current mirror circuit. The first semiconductor element includes a single diode or a single transistor, and the second semiconductor element includes diodes or transistors connected in parallel. The conversion...