US Patent Issued to OMRON on April 8 for "Overcurrent protection circuit and power converter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,941, issued on April 8, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Overcurrent protection circuit and power converter" was invented by Noriyuki Nosaka (Kyoto, Japan), Hironori Tauchi (Kyoto, Japan) and Takuro Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overcurrent protection circuit includes a first switching element including a fourth terminal, a sixth terminal connected to a first terminal, and a fifth terminal, and a second switching element including a seventh terminal connected to the fifth terminal, an eighth terminal connected to the fourth terminal, and a ninth terminal. The first switching element electricall...