US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Wiring Systems on Feb. 11 for "Power distribution box with a wake-up circuit" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,042, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan).

"Power distribution box with a wake-up circuit" was invented by Jessica L. Thompson (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Robert Grooms (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Vibhor Singh (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power distribution box having a wake-up circuit for causing a system basis chip to transmit a wake-up signal to wake up a microcontroller is provided. The wake-up circuit combines an input from actuating two different electric devices, the wake-up circuit includes a first conversion unit and a second conversion unit. The fir...