ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,222, issued on May 13, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Semiconductor switch controller" was invented by Christof Marc Glanzer (Villach, Austria), Christian Djelassi-Tscheck (Villach, Austria), Markus Ladurner (Villach, Austria) and Alexander Mayer (Treffen, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit arrangement for driving a semiconductor switch includes an undervoltage detection circuit to indicate an undervoltage state when a supply voltage falls below a voltage threshold value. A temperature detection circuit indicates that a temperature of a semiconductor switch exceeds a temperature threshol...