US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on May 6 for "Semiconductor switching element drive circuit and semiconductor device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,287, issued on May 6, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor switching element drive circuit and semiconductor device" was invented by Kazuaki Hiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a technique capable of bringing a switching time point of a gate drive condition close to an appropriate switching time point. A semiconductor switching element drive circuit includes a logic circuit that inverts a level of an output signal based on a divided voltage of an output voltage of a semiconductor switching element, and a switching circuit. The switching circuit switches a gate drive condit...