US Patent Issued to POWER INTEGRATIONS on July 28 for "Fault protection in switch driver units" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,447, issued on July 28, was assigned to POWER INTEGRATIONS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fault protection in switch driver units" was invented by Stefan Baeurle (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Yue Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.), Andreas Volke (Soest, Germany), Christoph Dustert (Soest, Germany), Karsten Fink (Werl, Germany) and Michael Hornkamp (Ense, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprising a plurality of switches and a plurality of driver units. Each driver unit is coupled to drive a respective switch of the plurality of switches. A system controller is coupled to each of the driver units by a bus, wherein the system contr...