US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on July 8 for "Circuits and techniques for predicting end of life based on in situ monitors and limit values defined for the in situ monitors" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,802, issued on July 8, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Circuits and techniques for predicting end of life based on in situ monitors and limit values defined for the in situ monitors" was invented by Georg Georgakos (Erding, Germany), Bernhard Gstoettenbauer (Engerwitzdorf, Austria), Dirk Hammerschmidt (Villach, Austria), Veit Kleeberger (Munich), Ludwig Rossmeier (Dorfen, Germany), Rafael Zalman (Markt Schwaben, Germany) and Thomas Zettler (Hoehenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a circuit comprises a function unit configured to perform a circuit function, a...