US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on April 7 for "Protecting a power inverter by sensing a phase node voltage" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,852, issued on April 7, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Protecting a power inverter by sensing a phase node voltage" was invented by Diego Raffo (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Weidong Chu (San Pedro, Calif.) and Christian Locatelli (Pavia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A half-bridge gate driver includes a phase node terminal configured to be coupled to a phase node to which a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor of a half-bridge are coupled; a diode comprising an anode and a cathode, wherein the cathode is coupled to the phase node terminal; and a comparator comprising a first input te...