US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Blanking periods for safely executing external tristate requests" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,185, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Blanking periods for safely executing external tristate requests" was invented by Michael Krug (Munich) and Tommaso Bacigalupo (Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to systems, circuits, and techniques for controlling a power switch and for executing tristate requests. Controlling a power switch may comprise delivering drive signals from a driver circuit to the power switch to control ON/OFF switching of the power switch, wherein an ON signal causes a charge period followed by an ON period for the p...