US Patent Issued to Navitas Semiconductor on Oct. 7 for "System and methods for motor drive using GAN synchronous rectification" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,535, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Navitas Semiconductor Ltd. (Dublin).

"System and methods for motor drive using GAN synchronous rectification" was invented by Santosh Sharma (Austin, Texas), Thomas Ribarich (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Matteo Uccelli (Milan) and Victor Sinow (Fresno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a GaN-based motor drive circuit using synchronous rectification is disclosed. In one aspect, a method of operating a motor drive circuit includes providing a half-bridge circuit including a high-side GaN switch and a low-side GaN switch coupled in series at an output node, providing a motor co...