US Patent Issued to Littelfuse on June 30 for "Overcurrent protection based on slope detection" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,244, issued on June 30, was assigned to Littelfuse Inc. (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Overcurrent protection based on slope detection" was invented by Cesar Martinez (San Sebastian, Spain), Boris Golubovic (San Francisco), Michael Gambuzza (Boston) and Guillermo Zatorre (San Sebastian, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a control circuit, for use in a solid state battery disconnect and protection system, wherein control circuit includes a high-voltage switch coupled between an electric battery and a DC link capacitor of an electric vehicle, wherein the electric vehicle is powered by the electric battery, and a control block. The ...