ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,975, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MITSUMI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor integrated circuit device" was invented by Yoichi Takano (Hadano, Japan) and Kohei Sakurai (Atsugi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit device including: a switching transistor connected between a voltage input terminal where DC voltage is input and a voltage output terminal; a discharging transistor connected between the voltage output terminal and a ground point; an external terminal where a control signal of an external device is input; and a control circuit including a logic circuit and contro...