ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,018, issued on April 8, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Power supply circuit and switching control circuit" was invented by Masashi Akahane (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply circuit configured to generate an output voltage at a target level from an input voltage thereof. The power supply circuit includes a wiring configured to receive the input voltage, a variable resistor provided between the wiring and a predetermined node, a voltage generation circuit configured to apply a voltage at a predetermined level to the predetermined node based on a current from the variable resisto...