US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 30 for "Constant power active discharge of energy storage circuit" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,399, issued on June 30, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Constant power active discharge of energy storage circuit" was invented by John Geiger (Freising, Germany), Toru Tanaka (Plano, Texas), Adam L. Shook (Carrollton, Texas) and Rakesh Raja (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a reference signal generator, a comparator, a one-shot circuit, and a gate driver. The reference signal generator has an output terminal, a first input terminal configured to receive a discharge time select value, and a second input terminal configured to receive a stop voltage select value. The comparator has an ou...