ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,276, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Electric power measurement circuit" was invented by Kazuhito Tanaka (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power measurement circuit includes: a period measurement circuit that measures a measurement period; a first measurer that measures (i) a first toggle number that is a number by which a signal value indicated by an input signal to a first target circuit has changed and (ii) a first operation period that is a period during which the input signal is valid; a second measurer that measures (i) a second toggle number that...