US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on May 27 for "Gate drive circuit, and semiconductor breaker" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,322, issued on May 27, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Gate drive circuit, and semiconductor breaker" was invented by Yusuke Kinoshita (Kyoto, Japan), Takashi Ichiryu (Osaka, Japan) and Hidetoshi Ishida (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate drive circuit includes: an input terminal; a first circuit path inserted into a line connecting the input terminal and a gate of a power transistor; a second circuit path connected in parallel to the first circuit path; and a third circuit path connected in parallel to the second circuit path. The first circuit path includes a gate...