US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on Dec. 30 for "Cascode-based switch device with voltage clamp circuit" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,664, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Cascode-based switch device with voltage clamp circuit" was invented by Kennith Kin Leong (Villach, Austria) and Herwig Wappis (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch device includes: a first power transistor die including a normally-on power transistor; a second power transistor die including a normally-off power transistor having a drain electrically connected to a source of the normally-on power transistor to form a cascode device; and a capacitor electrically connected between a gate of the normally-on power transistor ...