US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Aug. 5 for "Layout of gate driver circuit for high-speed switching devices" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,547, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Layout of gate driver circuit for high-speed switching devices" was invented by Shohei Masuda (Markham, Canada), Ahmad Yafaoui (Markham, Canada) and Andrew Dickson (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching circuit includes a first switch; a second switch connected in series with the first switch; a first isolated driver connected to a gate terminal of the first switch; a second isolated driver connected to a gate terminal of the second switch; and a transformer including a primary winding connected to an auxiliary power supply, a fi...