US Patent Issued to EM Microelectronic-Marin on Oct. 28 for "Soft switching device, electronic system with soft switching device with an electrical power source" (Czech, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,974, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to EM Microelectronic-Marin SA (Marin, Switzerland).

"Soft switching device, electronic system with soft switching device with an electrical power source" was invented by Christoph Kuratli (La Neuveville, Switzerland) and Lubomir Plavec (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soft switching device (sw) for connecting a power supply to at least one large electronic unit of an electronic system (1), so as to be activated via the soft switching device to the power supply. The device comprises a switch component (M1) with a control terminal and a current source (13) connected to the con...