US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, MIRISE Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Reference voltage generation circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,843, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"Reference voltage generation circuit" was invented by Masaya Kondo (Nisshin, Japan), Yoshikazu Furuta (Nisshin, Japan) and Tomohiro Nezuka (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reference voltage generation circuit includes a Zener diode and a current generation circuit connected to the Zener diode in parallel. The current generation circuit includes a resistance voltage divider circuit, a transistor circuit and a voltage control circuit. The resistance voltage divider cir...