US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on May 12 for "DC link capacitor charging and generating excitation currents for battery cell monitoring" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,191, issued on May 12, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"DC link capacitor charging and generating excitation currents for battery cell monitoring" was invented by Guenter Hofer (St. Oswald, Austria) and Guenter Schwarzberger (Reitmehring, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver circuit is configured to control an ON/OFF state of a semiconductor power switch circuit, wherein the semiconductor power switch circuit is configured to connect a plurality of battery cells to a DC link capacitor associated with an electric motor. The driver circuit is configured to: control the semiconductor power switch...