US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Canada on Sept. 23 for "Circuit with power transistor and current sense that uses control drive as power source" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,920, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Canada Inc. (Ottawa).

"Circuit with power transistor and current sense that uses control drive as power source" was invented by Yalong Li (Allen, Texas), Yinglai Xia (Plano, Texas), Robert Wayne Mounger (Dallas), Nan Xing (Allen, Texas), Edward MacRobbie (Nepean, Canada) and Zhemin Zhang (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit that includes a power transistor and at least one sense transistor and that uses the control drive terminal to not only control the power transistor and the sense transistor, but also to provide power to a current sense circuit. The ...