US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on July 7 for "Short-circuit detection device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,469, issued on July 7, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Short-circuit detection device" was invented by Ghafour Benabdelaziz (Tours, France) and Jean Pierre Proot (Saint Cyr sur Loire, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a short-circuit detection device in a direct current circuit, including a voltage source, a bus including at least two conducting elements each coupled to either one of the terminals of the voltage source, first and second thyristors coupled to the voltage source and to the bus, and at least one capacitive element forming a storage capacitor, whose el...