US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on July 21 for "Power electronic circuit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,318, issued on July 21, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Power electronic circuit" was invented by Marc Rasch (Immenstaad, Germany) and Sebastian Besold (Neudrossenfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power electronic circuit includes a topological switch having at least two power semiconductors connected in parallel, a driver configured to drive the power semiconductors, a gate resistor between the driver and the power semiconductors, a monitoring device to detect a voltage drop between two load terminals of the topological switch and output it as a signal, and a comparison device arranged...