US Patent Issued to Weidmuller Interface on Oct. 7 for "Power supply device and method for checking a field effect transistor of such a power supply device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,537, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Weidmuller Interface GmbH & Co. KG (Germany).

"Power supply device and method for checking a field effect transistor of such a power supply device" was invented by Matthias Ploger (Lemgo, Germany), Michael Buschkamp (Lage, Germany), Klaus Schurmann (Lage, Germany) and Tobias Blome (Blomberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for checking at least one field effect transistor (11) connected as an active diode, which is connected downstream of an output of a power supply unit (1) within a power supply device. The method comprises the following steps: generating...