US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Techniques and driver circuits configured to monitor load current through a gate injection transistor (GIT)" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,980, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Techniques and driver circuits configured to monitor load current through a gate injection transistor (GIT)" was invented by Marcus Nuebling (Olching-Esting, Germany), Peter Weiss (Kelheim, Germany), Christian Novak (Remseck am Neckar, Germany) and Christoph Bauer (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a driver circuit configured to control a gate injection transistor (GIT). The driver circuit is configured to output a control current to a gate of the GIT, detect a voltage at the gate of the GIT, and determin...