ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,079, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Semiconductor device and integrated circuit" was invented by Takumi Masubuchi (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first semiconductor relay and a second semiconductor relay connected in parallel to each other, an input switching circuit that switches a path of a signal input to the first and second semiconductor relays, an output switching circuit that switches a path of a signal output from the first and second semiconductor relays, and a monitoring unit that performs abnormality detection and warning for the first and second semicond...