ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,181, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Diodes Inc. (Plano, Texas).
"Gate drive apparatus and control method" was invented by Chiao-Shun Chuang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Ta-Chuan Kuo (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Ke-Horng Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a capacitive device configured to provide bias power for a high-side switch, a gate drive path connected between the capacitive device and a gate of the high-side switch, wherein the gate drive path comprises a controllable switch and a first resistive device connected in series between the capacitive device and the gate of the high-side switch, and a ...