ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,256, issued on May 27, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Flexible fault detection" was invented by Asa S. Kirby (Austin, Texas) and John N. Wilson (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a high-power drive device includes a fault detection integrated circuit product configured to provide an indication of a fault condition associated with the high-power drive device to a first terminal in a first voltage domain in response to detecting the fault condition in a second voltage domain. The system includes a gate driver controller integrated circuit product configured to drive a seco...