US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Dec. 16 for "Short circuit fault protection for a regulator" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,747, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Short circuit fault protection for a regulator" was invented by Zubair Khan (Greater Noida, India) and Sandeep Kaushik (Greater Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are techniques for detecting a short circuit fault at an output of a regulator and protecting the regulator from the short circuit fault. An error amplifier receives a reference voltage and a feedback voltage and compares comparing the reference voltage with the feedback voltage for driving a power transistor of the regulator. A modification stage compares an output vo...