US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Jan. 27 for "Advanced shutdown during fault-current conditions for semiconductor devices" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,956, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Advanced shutdown during fault-current conditions for semiconductor devices" was invented by Zachary W. Newell (Edwards, Ill.) and Venkata Ramakrishna Challa (Narasaraopet, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive circuit includes power devices that provide current to a load. At least a portion of the power devices are disposed in a first voltage domain of the drive circuit; a controller circuit configured to provide control signals to activate and deactivate the power devices, wherein the controller circuit is disposed in a second voltage domain separated ...