US Patent Issued to Renesas Design (UK) on July 15 for "Driver circuit and method for controlling a switching element" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,739, issued on July 15, was assigned to Renesas Design (UK) Ltd. (Bourne End, Great Britain).

"Driver circuit and method for controlling a switching element" was invented by Eduardas Jodka (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver circuit for controlling a switching element is provided. The driver circuit (200) has a plurality of bootstrap capacitors (210) and a switching unit (211). Furthermore, the driver circuit (200) has a control unit (102) which is configured to control the switching unit (211) in dependence of a control signal (ActHS) to provide a parallel arrangement of the plurality of bootstrap capacitors (...