ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,302, issued on June 17, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Limiting circuitry with controlled parallel direct current-direct current-converters" was invented by Peter Johannes Frank (Regensburg, Germany), Siegfried Schmid (Hemau, Germany) and Walter Johann Slamnig (Latschach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Limiting circuitry is disclosed. In one example, the limiting circuitry provides limited electric current and/or limited electric voltage for electrically testing at least one device under test. The limiting circuitry comprises a plurality of DC-DC-converters being connected in parallel to each ...