US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Integrated active isolation measurement" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,804, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Integrated active isolation measurement" was invented by Stefan Schumi (Munich), Michael Krug (Munich) and Ordwin Haase (Neubiberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example isolation measurement circuit includes a first switch connecting a first isolation resistor to a terminal of a measurement resistor, the first isolation resistor also connecting to a positive bus of a power distribution system. The isolation measurement circuit also includes a second switch connecting a second isolation resistor to the terminal of the measurement res...