ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,636, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Power-on reset circuit" was invented by Masanobu Tsuji (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power-on reset circuit supplies a reset pulse to a sequential circuit to be initialized. A latch circuit includes a first inversion circuit and a second inversion circuit structured to invert and amplify a signal input thereto, with an output node of the first inversion circuit connected to an input node of the second inversion circuit, and with an output node of the second inversion circuit connected to an input node of the first inversion circuit. A decision circu...