US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Sept. 22 for "Apparatus and method for detecting an electric current flow through a diode, and electric drive system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,540, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for detecting an electric current flow through a diode, and electric drive system" was invented by Daniel Schweiker (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Ekard Grossmann (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detection of an electric current through a diode arranged parallel to a semiconductor switching element. For this purpose, an output signal of a circuit arrangement for saturation monitoring (desat circuit) is used. The output signal is evaluated at periods in which the semiconductor switching element is opened."

The patent ...