US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Controlling a power switching element using a sense switching element" (Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,467, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Controlling a power switching element using a sense switching element" was invented by Razvan Puscasu (Dimbovita, Romania) and Vlad-George Moise (Buckarest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for controlling a power switching element includes a driving switching element configured to couple a voltage supply to a gate of the power switching element using a driving current and a sense switching element configured to generate an indication of a voltage drop at the driving switching element based on a reference current. The circuit furth...