ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,733, issued on July 15, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).
"Circuit device" was invented by Takanori Iwawaki (Suwa, Japan), Motoaki Nishimura (Chino, Japan), Yoshihiko Nimura (Hara, Japan) and Katsumi Inoue (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit device includes a control circuit configured to control a transistor current based on a detected temperature. The detected temperature is a temperature detected by a temperature sensor circuit that detects a temperature of a transistor. The transistor charges a load to which a power supply voltage is supplied. The transistor current is a current flowing through the...