ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,224, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Avalanche protection circuit" was invented by Benjamin Schmidt (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuitry and techniques for detecting a circuit malfunction and disconnecting a main switch when the main switch comprises two or more smaller MOSFET switches connected in parallel. The circuitry of this disclosure includes a protection circuit switch using a protection switch arranged in parallel to the main switch. The protection switch circuit is configured to relieve the main switch MOSFETs as energy dissipates after the main switch circuit ...