ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,977, issued on March 11, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).
"Intelligent power module and power module" was invented by Masanari Fujii (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power module, including a power element, and a control unit that controls the power element. The control unit includes: a frequency divider circuit that receives a signal for driving the power element and has a frequency dividing function, by which the frequency divider circuit generates an output having a frequency lower than that of the received signal; an overcurrent detection comparator that detects an overcurrent of the po...