US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY on May 20 for "Full-bridge circuit module and circuit system with over-temperature protection mechanism" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,773, issued on May 20, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Full-bridge circuit module and circuit system with over-temperature protection mechanism" was invented by Chun Hsin Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A full-bridge circuit module with an over-temperature protection mechanism for driving an inductive load includes a full-bridge circuit and a comparator module. When the over-temperature protection mechanism is triggered, four switching transistors of the full-bridge circuit are turned off, and two body diodes of corresponding twos of the four switching transistors which are electricall...