ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,630, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Wiltshire, Great Britain).
"Gate driver" was invented by Stephen Greetham (Gloucester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver is described for driving switches. The gate driver includes an input for receiving a signal indicative of a polarity of a voltage or current, and outputs for outputting gate signals for driving the switches. In response to a fault condition, the gate driver generates gate signals at the outputs that depend on the polarity of the voltage or current."
The patent was filed on Nov. 15, 2021, under Application No. 18/038,192.
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