US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on March 4 for "Current controlled voltage regulator testing" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,291, issued on March 4, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Current controlled voltage regulator testing" was invented by Veikko Summa (Villach, Austria) and Manfred Bresch (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed to the use of an externally-supplied control current to control the adjustment of an internal supply voltage generated via voltage regulator circuitry, which may be identified with an integrated circuit (IC) chip. The configuration of the voltage regulator circuitry functions to establish a linear relationship between the control current and the internal voltage...