US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Americas on May 26 for "Current controlled architecture for a Vconn switch" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,553, issued on May 26, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Current controlled architecture for a Vconn switch" was invented by Rajesh Karri (Visakhapatnam, India) and Arun Khamesra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Universal Serial Bus (USB) controller including a Vconn switch having a current controlled architecture, and method for operating the same, are described. In an example embodiment, the Vconn switch includes first and second transistors coupled in series between a Vconn terminal and a communication channel (CC) terminal, a replica switch coupled to the Vconn terminal, ...