ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,745, issued on July 15, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Method for driving a topological semiconductor switch for a power electronics system" was invented by Fabian Hohmann (Hofbieber, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for driving a topological semiconductor switch for a power electronics system, wherein the topological semiconductor switch is split into at least two groups of power semiconductors that are driven temporally separately from one another at a preset switching frequency in such a way that in each case only one of the power semiconductors takes on the total current, wherein...