ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,074, issued on April 15, was assigned to DSPACE GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).
"Protection circuit for a simulated battery cell" was invented by Paul Gruber (Paderborn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection circuit for a simulated battery cell having an output comprising an output voltage includes: at least one MOSFET connected to the output of the simulated battery cell for short-circuiting the output of the simulated battery cell; a capacitor connected to a gate electrode of the at least one MOSFET; an overvoltage detection device configured to charge the capacitor with the output voltage based on an overvoltage limit of t...