US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Power converter circuit with smart filter for identifying faults" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,402, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Power converter circuit with smart filter for identifying faults" was invented by Michele Bergo (Padua, Italy) and Dario Cappuzzo (Limena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a filter circuit for a power converter circuit. The filter circuit may comprise a comparator circuit configured to determine when a switch node voltage of the power converter circuit satisfies a voltage threshold, and a deglitch circuit configured to determine whether the switch node voltage satisfying the threshold is expected based on control sign...