ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,518, issued on March 25, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Enhanced gate driver" was invented by Gary Chunshien Wu (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuitry and methods for an improved gate driver circuit for power converters. The improved gate driver circuit substantially reduces propagation delay and transition losses in the floating-gate side of the gate driver circuit. One embodiment includes an inverter having an input configured to receive a state transition signal and an output configured to be coupled to a control input of a switching device. The inverter includes a first NFET having a ...