US Patent Issued to Navitas Semiconductor on Oct. 7 for "Transistor DV/DT control circuit" (California, Texas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,528, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Navitas Semiconductor Ltd. (Dublin).

"Transistor DV/DT control circuit" was invented by Hongwei Jia (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Santosh Sharma (Austin, Texas), Daniel M. Kinzer (El Segundo, Calif.), Victor Sinow (Fresno, Calif.) and Matthew Anthony Topp (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuits and methods that control a rate of change of a drain voltage as a function of time in a transistor are disclosed. In one aspect, the circuit includes a transistor having a gate terminal that controls operation of the transistor, and a control circuit coupled to the gate terminal and arran...