US Patent Issued to NXP USA on Sept. 22 for "Fault tolerant driver circuit" (French, Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,522, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Fault tolerant driver circuit" was invented by Carl-Hinrich Paul (Basel, Switzerland), Hubert Michel Grandry (Espanes, France), Markus Hafermalz (Teltow, Germany) and Tristan Bosvieux (Plaisance du Touch, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example discloses a driver circuit, including: a high-side element coupled to receive a supply voltage and configured to be coupled to a first terminal of a load; a low-side element coupled to a ground and configured to be coupled to a second terminal of the load; a controller coupled to activate both the high-side elem...