US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on June 3 for "Gate drive circuit, gate drive device, high-frequency power supply device, and system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,137, issued on June 3, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Gate drive circuit, gate drive device, high-frequency power supply device, and system" was invented by Koji Takahashi (Osaka, Japan), Manabu Yanagihara (Osaka, Japan), Noboru Negoro (Osaka, Japan) and Takeshi Azuma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate drive circuit that drives a switching element including a first drain, a first source, and a first gate includes: a first terminal to which a gate control signal is input; a gate signal line connecting the first terminal and the first gate; a resistance element inser...