ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,284, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Light-emitting element driving control device and light-emitting element driving circuit device" was invented by Akira Aoki (Kyoto, Japan) and Ryo Takagi (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting element driving circuit device in which the light-emitting element driving circuit device includes: a clock signal generator configured to generate a clock signal that drives high-side and low-side transistors of a switching output stage to turn them on and off complementarily; a first comparator configured to sense a voltage appearing across terminals...