US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on Nov. 4 for "Semiconductor device, control device for transmission, and control method of electronic control unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,960, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Semiconductor device, control device for transmission, and control method of electronic control unit" was invented by Keishi Komoriyama (Hitachinaka, Japan), Yoichiro Kobayashi (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Minoru Migita (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a power saving and highly reliable semiconductor device on which a switching power supply circuit and a driver circuit are mounted together, and which can perform appropriate control by the driver circuit even when a battery terminal is disconnected while reducing power loss in ...