ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,442, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Ideal Power Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Unidirectional hybrid switch circuit" was invented by Ruiyang Yu (Austin, Texas), Jiankang Bu (Austin, Texas), Yifan Jiang (Austin, Texas), R. Daniel Brdar (Driftwood, Texas) and Mudit Khanna (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Unidirectional hybrid switch. At least one example is a method operating a hybrid switch, the method comprising: sensing a voltage across an upper terminal and a lower terminal of the hybrid switch, the hybrid switch is forward biased when the upper terminal has higher voltage, and the hybrid switch is reverse biased when the ...