ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,440, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG (Villach, Austria).
"Gate driver" was invented by Christian Locatelli (Pavia, Italy), Martina Arosio (Brugherio, Italy) and Weidong Chu (San Pedro, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver has a supply voltage terminal, a bootstrap terminal connected to the supply voltage terminal, a driver having a power input terminal connected to the bootstrap terminal and an output connected to a gate control signal output terminal and configured to generate a gate drive signal at the gate control signal output terminal based on a voltage on the power input termin...