US Patent Issued to Lisa Draexlmaier on Dec. 9 for "Method for monitoring a switchable semiconductor component and monitoring device for a semiconductor component" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,616, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Lisa Draexlmaier GmbH (Vilsbiburg, Germany).

"Method for monitoring a switchable semiconductor component and monitoring device for a semiconductor component" was invented by Thomas Rapolder (Ebersberg, Germany) and Michael Wortberg (Dorfer, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a switchable semiconductor component having a protective circuit connected in parallel to the semiconductor component includes tapping an electrical variable applied to the semiconductor component and the protective circuit, and detecting damage to the semiconductor component and/or the protective ...