ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,229, issued on July 8, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Slave circuit and remote control system using the same" was invented by Nozomu Koja (Kyoto, Japan) and Kohei Tanimitsu (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slave circuit that is connected to a master circuit via a bus, receives a power supply voltage via the bus, and receives a communication signal superimposed on the power supply voltage includes a diode bridge circuit configured to rectify a voltage of the bus, a capacitor connection pin to which a capacitor is connected, a P-type transistor connected between an output of the diode bridge circuit and the...