US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on Sept. 30 for "Cascode solid-state switch device and power electronics system" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,897, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Cascode solid-state switch device and power electronics system" was invented by Kennith Kin Leong (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cascode solid-state switch device includes a normally-off transistor and a normally-on transistor having a source electrically connected to a drain of the normally-off transistor. A gate charge of the cascode solid-state switch device is independent of both a voltage class of the cascode solid-state switch device and a drain-to-source on-state resistance of the cascode solid-state switch devic...