US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on July 14 for "Volatile memory schema for safe state configuration" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,787, issued on July 14, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Volatile memory schema for safe state configuration" was invented by Klaus Hoermaier (Krumpendorf, Austria), Martin Ringswirth (Kaltschach, Austria) and Gernot Unterweger (Latschach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to circuits and techniques for configuring a driver circuit for a power switch when entering a fail-safe state. The driver circuit includes a volatile memory connected to a plurality of independent power supplies, the volatile memory configured to store a fail-safe configuration for the driver circuit....