US Patent Issued to Enphase Energy on March 18 for "Isolated gate driver for bidirectional FET pair" (American, New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,524, issued on March 18, was assigned to Enphase Energy Inc. (Petaluma, Calif.).

"Isolated gate driver for bidirectional FET pair" was invented by Tomasz Janusz Kotula (Christchurch, New Zealand), Patrick Lyle Chapman (Austin, Texas) and Martin Fornage (Petaluma, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for driving four-quadrant (4Q) switches of a power converter is provided herein and comprises a transformer driver module, a first gate driver module and a second gate driver module coupled to the transformer driver module via a first isolation transformer and a second isolation transformer, respectively, for receiving both swi...