US Patent Issued to ROHM on Nov. 11 for "Drive circuit for bridge circuit, motor drive device using the same, and electronic device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,212, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Drive circuit for bridge circuit, motor drive device using the same, and electronic device" was invented by Hisashi Sugie (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a drive circuit for driving a bridge circuit having a high-side transistor connected between an input line and an output line and a low-side transistor connected between the output line and a ground line. The drive circuit includes an output monitoring circuit that compares an output voltage generated on the output line with a threshold level based on an input voltage of the input line an...