ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,332, issued on June 24, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Intelligent semiconductor switch" was invented by Christian Djelassi-Tscheck (Villach, Austria) and Alexander Mayer (Treffen, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit may comprise an electronic switch with a load current path, which is switched between an output node and a supply node and is designed to connect or disconnect the output node to or from the supply node in accordance with a control signal. The circuit further comprises a control circuit which is designed to generate the control signal based on an input signal, and a current m...