US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Phase change material switch device and related methods" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,235, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Phase change material switch device and related methods" was invented by Valentyn Solomko (Munich), Dominik Heiss (Munich) and Hans Taddiken (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase change material switch device is provided. In one implementation, the phase change material switch device includes a phase change material and a heater device thermally coupled to the phase change material. During heating phases, a coupling device provides a first electrical impedance between a power source and the heater device. Outside the heating phases, the c...