ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,115, issued on June 10, was assigned to JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY (Kawaguchi, Japan).
"Switching circuit and power supply circuit" was invented by Takeaki Yajima (Fukuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching circuit includes a switching element of a field-effect type, the switching element being configured to switch between an ON state and an OFF state in accordance with a potential of a control terminal, and a control circuit configured to supply a potential of a first level to the control terminal when maintaining one state of the ON state and the OFF state of the switching element, and make the control termi...