ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,490, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Mahle International GmbH (Germany).

"Method for determining a temperature of an IGBT driver" was invented by Tihomir Angelov (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Marvin Derschka (Remseck am Neckar, Germany), Volker Kirschner (Muehlacker, Germany) and Hans Christian Uibeleisen (Backnang, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a temperature of an Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor ("IGBT") driver, the IGBT driver may include two Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor ("MOSFET") elements, two direct voltage terminals for providing a base direct voltage for the two MOSFET elem...