US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Driver circuit with a multi-function pin used for in-line characterization of a power switch" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,238, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Driver circuit with a multi-function pin used for in-line characterization of a power switch" was invented by Michael Krug (Munich) and Marcus Nuebling (Olching-Esting, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to a driver circuit configured to control a power switch. The driver circuit may comprise an output pin, wherein the driver circuit is configured to deliver drive signals from the output pin to the power switch to control turn ON of the power switch; a multi-function pin; and a state machine configured to define ope...