ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,438, issued on July 21, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Circuit arrangement, electrical system, and method for ascertaining barrier layer temperatures of gate-controlled semiconductor components" was invented by Jonathan Winkler (Sonnenbuehl, Germany) and Manuel Riefer (Reutlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit arrangement, an electrical system, and a method for determining barrier layer temperatures of gate-controlled semiconductor components. First and second semiconductor components of the circuit arrangement are connected in parallel and activated using a gate control circuit which, in ...