US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on July 29 for "Gate driver device having a driver circuit for supplying a backgate drive signal" (German, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,081, issued on July 29, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Gate driver device having a driver circuit for supplying a backgate drive signal" was invented by Dirk Priefert (Moers, Germany), Matteo Albertini (Pavia, Italy) and Remigiusz Viktor Boguszewicz (Essen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver device includes a first field effect transistor and a first driver circuit. The first field effect transistor includes a first gate electrode and a first backgate structure. The first driver circuit supplies a first backgate drive signal to the first backgate structure."

The patent was fil...