ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,314, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Common mode evaluation" was invented by Jens Barrenscheen (Munich), Marcus Nuebling (Olching-Esting, Germany) and Markus Zannoth (Neubiberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including circuitry to communicate data across an isolation barrier of a switch driver circuit. For switch driver circuits with galvanic isolation, the circuitry of this disclosure uses the unavoidable common mode voltages caused by the coupling capacitances of the data transfer circuit to evaluate the common mode voltage characteristics, such as the slew rate o...