US Patent Issued to Littelfuse on Nov. 4 for "Thermal protection device to withstand high voltage" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,957, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Littelfuse Inc. (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Thermal protection device to withstand high voltage" was invented by Toshikazu Yamaoka (Tokyo), Yohei Mizukami (Chicago), Jianhua Chen (Chicago) and Werner Johler (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal protection device, comprising: a first PTC device, arranged in a PTC circuit, and having a first input side, coupled to an input path of the PTC circuit, and having a first output side, coupled to an output path of the PTC circuit; a second PTC device, arranged in the PTC circuit, and having a second input side, coupled to the input path of the PTC circ...