ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,778, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Dual application gate driver" was invented by Zachary W. Newell (Edwards, Ill.) and Venkata Ramakrishna Challa (Narasaraopet, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive circuit includes a first half bridge gate driver including a first top device and a first bottom device; a second half bridge gate driver including a second top device and a second bottom device; jumper connections and a circuit board. The jumper connections configure the drive circuit as two parallel half bridge gate drivers connected in parallel when jumpers are applied to the jumper connectio...