US Patent Issued to DENSO on June 10 for "Drive circuit for controlling conduction states of multiple loads" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,368, issued on June 10, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Drive circuit for controlling conduction states of multiple loads" was invented by Yusuke Takahashi (Kariya, Japan), Akito Ito (Kariya, Japan), Kotaro Tanaka (Kariya, Japan) and Keisuke Atsumi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive device includes a driver, a determination storage, a comparator, and at least one of a control storage and a monitor storage. The control storage stores a control pattern that includes a signal instructing a conduction state of each of loads. The driver control semiconductor switches respectively corresponding to the loads...