US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Power transistor control and overcurrent detection" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,640, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Power transistor control and overcurrent detection" was invented by Christof Marc Thoma (Villach, Austria), Alexander Mayer (Treffen, Austria) and Daniel Mayer (Ranten, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a circuit includes a power transistor connected between a supply terminal and an output terminal; a control circuit coupled to a control electrode of the power transistor and configured to apply a control current to the control electrode to turn the power transistor on or off; and an overcurrent protection cir...