ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,446, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power supply device and semiconductor device" was invented by Takayuki Tsukamoto (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply device includes a switching circuit and first and second control circuits. The switching circuit is between a regulator circuit and a terminal and is configured to transition between a first state in which a second power supply voltage is supplied to the terminal and a second state in which supply of the second power supply voltage to the terminal is cut off. The first control circuit is configured to output a reset signal ...