ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,177, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device, electronic apparatus, and control method" was invented by Yuki Yoshida (Tokyo) and Michio Otsubo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device controls a switching element that is connected to a conductor and that executes a switching operation for causing the conductor to switch between conductive and non-conductive states. The control device includes an element controller and a current value measurer. When a target conduction ratio is a positive value lower than 1, the element controller controls the switching element to be in an on...