ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,809, issued on June 17, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power supply shut-off control device" was invented by Toshiki Asai (Tokyo) and Akihiro Tsumura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply control device includes: a power conversion device; a controller; a current detection device; a comparison device configured to output a shut-off start signal when a value of current detected by the current detection device is larger than a preset current threshold value; a shut-off device configured to shut off, based on a shut-off control signal, a conversion operation signal; a latch device configured to output...