ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,077, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Determining the remaining useful life of power modules" was invented by Horst Lewitschnig (Klagenfurt, Austria) and Giovanni Di Nuzzo (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may comprise a power module including a power switch, a driver circuit configured to control an ON state and an OFF state of the power switch, and a processor configured to control the driver circuit. The processor may be configured to receive a voltage associated with the power switch in the ON state and determine a state of health (SOH) for the power switch based on th...