US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Watchdog circuit and method for operating a watchdog circuit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,090, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Watchdog circuit and method for operating a watchdog circuit" was invented by Achim Vowe (Merching, Germany) and Anjana Ramamoorthy (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watchdog circuit for monitoring a plurality of processes. The watchdog circuit is configured to provide a periodic signal with an adjustable fixed time interval to a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to receive the periodic signal from the timer and use periodic signal to monitor the plurality of processes. Each of the plurality of processes has a planned proce...