US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on Jan. 20 for "Gate driver with integrated self short circuit detection and protection" (Italian, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,553, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Gate driver with integrated self short circuit detection and protection" was invented by Martina Arosio (Brugherio, Italy), Sergio Morini (Pavia, Italy) and Eslam Ramadan Mohamed Alfawy (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver circuit includes a high-side region that operates in a first voltage domain; a low-side region that operates in a second voltage domain lower than the first voltage domain; a gate driver configured to drive a power switch between an on-state and an off-state; at least one capacitor cross-coupled t...