ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,225, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Hideo Hara (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes high-side and low-side switching elements connected in series to form a switching arm, a high-side driver IC for driving the high-side switching element, and, on a chip separate from the high-side switching element, a low-side driver IC for driving the low-side switching element. The driver IC includes a first controller for monitoring a switching voltage appearing at the node where the high-side and low-side switching elements are connecte...