US Patent Issued to CAMBRIDGE GAN DEVICES on June 23 for "Integrated circuit comprising a hotspot detection circuit" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,589, issued on June 23, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE GAN DEVICES Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Integrated circuit comprising a hotspot detection circuit" was invented by Florin Udrea (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit comprising: a III-nitride high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) comprising a source terminal, a gate terminal, and a drain terminal; a hotspot detection circuit comprising a temperature sensor, the temperature sensor being configured to sense a localized temperature of the III-nitride HEMT; and a protection circuit; wherein the hotspot detection circuit is configured, upon...