US Patent Issued to ROBERT BOSCH on March 17 for "Device, half bridge and method for operating a device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,558, issued on March 17, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Device, half bridge and method for operating a device" was invented by Marco Salvatore Costa (Weil im Schoenbuch, Germany), Dominik Alexander Ruoff (St. Johann, Germany), Manuel Wild (Stuttgart, Germany), Daniel Schweiker (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Josef Goeppert (Kusterdingen, Germany), Matthias Boesing (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Philipp Eggers (Delligsen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including a gate driver stage, a decoupling circuit, and a semiconductor switch. The semiconductor switch has at least a first semiconductor transistor a...