ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,056, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Efficient switching of output stage power driver" was invented by Lior Gil (Haifa, Israel), Kosta Luria (Pardesiya M, Israel) and Michael Zelikson (Haifa HA, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The circuits and methods described herein provide technical solutions for technical problems facing power driver circuits. To reduce or eliminate effects associated with a gate capacitance discharge current and inconsistent effective Vbias, the discharge process may be split into two phases. During a first phase, the transistor gate charge is drained into ground throug...