ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,993, issued on June 17, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Delay signal generation circuit, transmission circuit, electronic control unit, and vehicle" was invented by Yuji Yano (Kyoto, Japan) and Toru Mukai (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delay signal generation circuit includes first to nth (n representing a natural number equal to or larger than 2) delay circuits and first to nth output terminals. The delay signal generation circuit is configured such that, in a first mode, an input signal passes through the first to kth (k representing a natural number equal to or larger than 1 but equal to or smaller t...