US Patent Issued to Efficient Power Conversion on July 8 for "Universal power FET driver IC architecture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,435, issued on July 8, was assigned to Efficient Power Conversion Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Universal power FET driver IC architecture" was invented by Edward Lee (Fullerton, Calif.), Ravi Ananth (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Michael Chapman (Long Beach, Calif.), Michael A. de Rooij (Playa Vista, Calif.) and David C. Tam (Manhattan Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver circuit which integrates a synchronous bootstrap circuit in an isolation well of an integrated circuit, such that the synchronous bootstrap capacitor connected to the synchronous bootstrap circuit (and to the corresponding switch node of a power conve...