US Patent Issued to Efficient Power Conversion on Nov. 4 for "Integrated circuit for gate overvoltage protection of power devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,632, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Efficient Power Conversion Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit for gate overvoltage protection of power devices" was invented by Zhikai Tang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Edward Lee (Fullerton, Calif.) and Jianjun Cao (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated gate overvoltage protection circuit for protecting the gate of a main field effect transistor (FET). The gate protection circuit includes a blocking FET and a discharge FET connected between the gate and the drain of the main FET. The gate overvoltage protection circuit is configured to turn on both the first FET and ...