US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on May 12 for "Clamp circuits" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,292, issued on May 12, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Clamp circuits" was invented by Dieter Draxelmayr (Villach, Austria) and Herwig Wappis (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamp circuit including a first transistor having a control connection coupled to a first reference voltage terminal and a first controlled connection coupled to an input voltage terminal. The clamp circuit includes a second transistor having a control connection configured to receive a control voltage that is dependent on a current flowing through the first transistor, a first controlled connection coupled to the...