US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on Feb. 17 for "Conditional active thermal control to increase power semiconductor lifetime and efficiency" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,164, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Conditional active thermal control to increase power semiconductor lifetime and efficiency" was invented by Kwok Wai Ma (Singapore) and Dinesh Palaniappan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver system includes an active thermal control (ATC) circuit that monitors load current changes of a load current conducted by a transistor, and enables or disables an ATC of the transistor based on the load current changes. The ATC circuit is configured to evaluate load current changes that satisfy a duration threshold as qualified load c...