ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,219, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE GAN DEVICES Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Stand-by circuit" was invented by Sheung Wai Fung (Cambridge, Great Britain), Martin Arnold (Cambridge, Great Britain), Loizos Efthymiou (Cambridge, Great Britain), Tara Vishin (Cambridge, Great Britain), John William Findlay (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Florin Udrea (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A III-nitride power semiconductor based heterojunction device comprising a substrate, a first terminal, a second terminal, a control terminal configured to receive an input switching signal during an active mode of ope...