US Patent Issued to Richtek Technology on Oct. 7 for "Half-bridge driver and half-bridge driving method having slew rate adjustment function" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,536, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Half-bridge driver and half-bridge driving method having slew rate adjustment function" was invented by Yi-Kuang Chen (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A half-bridge driver drives a half-bridge circuit. The half-bridge driver includes a switch selection circuit and at least one slew rate adjustment circuit, wherein the slew rate adjustment circuit includes a pulse-width control unit, an adjustment pulling unit and a halt adjustment pulling unit. The switch selection circuit generates a source current or a sink current to correspondingly ...