ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,099, issued on March 24, was assigned to STMicroeIectronics International N.V. (Geneva).
"Coil short circuit protection in DC-DC converters" was invented by Alessandro Bertolini (Vermiglio, Italy) and Alessandro Gasparini (Cusano Milanino, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuitry for detecting a short across an inductor of a DC-DC converter includes a decoupling-circuit coupled between an inductor-terminal and an intermediate-node that, when activated, generates a detection-voltage (representative of voltage at the inductor-terminal) at the intermediate-node. A logic-circuit has an input coupled to the intermediate-node and an...