ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,462, issued on July 8, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Gate driver circuit for sampling without a triggering point" was invented by Tommaso Bacigalupo (Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany), Marco Bachhuber (Neuried, Germany) and Michael Krug (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver circuit includes one or more datastores configured to store one or more result registers, timer circuitry configured to generate a timing signal, and logic circuitry. The logic circuitry is configured to drive switching circuitry using a switching signal and determine a triggering point of a first cycle of the switching si...