ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,738, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Switch device" was invented by Toru Takuma (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example switch device includes a switching element to connect/disconnect a current path from a power supply terminal to a ground terminal via a load, and an overcurrent protection circuit to limit output current flowing in the switching element to be an overcurrent limit value or less. When an output short circuit of the load is detected, the overcurrent protection circuit decreases the overcurrent limit value to be lower as a power supply voltage is higher. The overcurrent ...