ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,549, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Protection for switched electronic devices" was invented by Vanni Poletto (Milan) and Fabrizio Loi (Lodi, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An HS switching transistor is coupled between a high-side node and a switching node. An LS switching transistor is coupled between the switching node and a low-side node. An inductive load is coupled to the switching node in a way where one of the HS/LS switching transistors is freewheeling. In response to detection of a short circuit occurring at the switching node with the freewheeling switching transis...