ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,285, issued on May 27, was assigned to KYOSAN ELECTRIC MFG. Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Switching module" was invented by Hiroshi Kunitama (Yokohama, Japan) and Takuya Yoshida (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The switching module has, mounted on a substrate thereof, a MOSFET and a driver circuit for applying drive voltage to a gate electrode of the MOSFET. In the switching module according to the present invention, the driver circuit is electrically connected to the MOSFET via a damping adjustment element and a bonding wire between the gate electrode and the driver circuit."
The patent was filed on Oct. 30, 2019, und...