ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,929, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Electronic control of protection parameters for a semiconductor switch" was invented by Muhammad Hussain Alvi (Troy, Mich.), Junghoon Kim (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Chunhao J. Lee (Troy, Mich.), Brian A. Welchko (Oakland Township, Mich.) and Eric Bernard Gach (Clarkston, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an electronic device including a circuit having a semiconductor switch, and a controller configured to control a gate driver connected to the semiconductor switch via a protection circuit. The controller is configured to set a prot...