US Patent Issued to Littelfuse on March 31 for "Pre-charge short circuit detection" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,557, issued on March 31, was assigned to Littelfuse Inc. (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Pre-charge short circuit detection" was invented by Michael Gambuzza (Boston), Guillermo Zatorre (San Sebastian, Spain), Boris Golubovic (San Francisco) and Cesar Martinez (San Sebastian, Spain).

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