US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Jan. 28 for "Phase change switch device having a set of heaters arranged to heat a phase change material and method of operating the phase change switch device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,313, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Phase change switch device having a set of heaters arranged to heat a phase change material and method of operating the phase change switch device" was invented by Dominik Heiss (Munich), Christoph Kadow (Gauting, Germany) and Hans Taddiken (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a phase change switch device is provided. The phase change switch includes a phase change material, a set of heaters arranged to heat the phase change material, and a switch arrangement. The switch arrangement includes a plurality of switches, and is conf...