US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on July 7 for "Method for the operating-point-dependent actuation of a topological semiconductor switch for a power electronics system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,608, issued on July 7, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Method for the operating-point-dependent actuation of a topological semiconductor switch for a power electronics system" was invented by Michael Meiler (Bayreuth, Germany) and Teresa Bertelshofer (Bayreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the operating point-dependent actuation of a topological semiconductor switch for a power electronics system is proposed, in which the topological semiconductor switch is divided into at least two groups of power semiconductors made of different semiconductor materials and/or types of semicon...