US Patent Issued to Monolithic Power Systems on July 29 for "Composite switch circuit with reduced power loss and the forming method thereof" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,999, issued on July 29, was assigned to Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (Kirkland, Wash.).

"Composite switch circuit with reduced power loss and the forming method thereof" was invented by Vipin Pala (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite switch circuit having a normally-on power switch device and a normally-off power switch device in cascode configuration is discussed. The composite switch circuit is with reduced power loss by biasing a common connection of the source terminal of the normally-on power switch device and the drain terminal of the normally-off power switch device with a low voltage supply during a r...