US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 1 for "Driver circuit and method for controlling a semiconductor switch" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,222, issued on July 1, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Driver circuit and method for controlling a semiconductor switch" was invented by Matthias Neumeister (Erlangen, Germany) and Markus Pfeifer (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some circuits for controlling a semiconductor switch include: a contact for connection to a control terminal of the semiconductor switch; and a device to carry out a measurement of a value dependent on the level of the current flowing through the semiconductor switch, in the course of a switch-off process of the semiconductor switch. The value is either the level of the gate current at ...