ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,995, issued on April 15, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Power supply system and semiconductor integrated circuit device" was invented by Shingo Hashiguchi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply system includes a plurality of semiconductor integrated circuit devices, wherein a master among the plurality of semiconductor integrated circuit devices is configured to use a constant voltage to calibrate a first reference of a detection result of a current flowing through its own switching element, and a slave among the plurality of semiconductor integrated circuit devices is configured to use the constan...