US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on Sept. 9 for "Diagnosing power rail over-voltage and under-voltage conditions" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,534, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Diagnosing power rail over-voltage and under-voltage conditions" was invented by Dieter Jozef Joos (Nieuwenrode, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power monitors, power supply circuits, and methods for operating a power supply. The method includes determining a voltage of a power rail provided to a load device from the power supply. The method also includes detecting that the voltage of the power rail is greater than or equal to an over-voltage threshold. The method further includes incrementing an over-voltage counter when the...