US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 8 for "Gate driving technique to lower switch on-resistance in switching converter applications" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,021, issued on April 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Gate driving technique to lower switch on-resistance in switching converter applications" was invented by Taewoo Kwak (San Diego), Joseph Dale Rutkowski (Chandler, Ariz.) and Sugato Mukherjee (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for driving transistor gates of a switched-mode power supply (SMPS) circuit. One example power supply circuit generally includes a switching converter having a switching transistor and a gate driver having an output coupled to a gate of the switching transistor. The gate driver includes a first switching device c...