US Patent Issued to TOYOTA BOSHOKU on Sept. 30 for "Switch circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,888, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Switch circuit" was invented by Reina Miyachi (Toyota, Japan) and Naoya Hanada (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of a switch circuit is configured to execute a first determination process of determining whether a first switch is in a closed state and whether a second switch is in a closed state through a polling process, a second determination process of determining whether a state indicated by a signal input to an interrupt port has changed from the closed state to an open state, and a turn-off process of bringing a switching elem...