ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,527, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor element drive device" was invented by Yuto Shibuta (Fukuoka, Japan) and Shohei Higashi (Fukuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a technique which enables an outer portion to identify a type of an error state from an identification signal in an early state. A semiconductor element drive device includes a plurality of error state detection circuits generating an error signal corresponding to an error state, an error state identification signal generation circuit generating an error state identification signal having a d...