US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on March 18 for "Temperature-controlled driver with built-in self testing of switch status" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,649, issued on March 18, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Temperature-controlled driver with built-in self testing of switch status" was invented by Jeffrey A. Dykstra (Chicago) and Rodd E. Novak (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for reading and programming a state of a switch device are presented. The programming of the state of the switch device is performed by providing driving pulses to the switch device. The amplitude and the width of the driving pulses are a function of one or more of a) temperature of the switch device, b) desired state of the switch device, and c...