US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Aug. 12 for "Negative bias circuit for power device driving" (North Carolina, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,434, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Negative bias circuit for power device driving" was invented by Yuxiang Shi (Cary, N.C.), Muhammad Mobeen Mahmood (Irving, Texas), Prashanth Morkonda Umachandran (Long Beach, Calif.) and Steven Schulz (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to a negative bias circuit for power device driving. An apparatus may include a power source, a gate impedance path, a capacitor in series with the gate impedance path, and a clamping circuit for a transistor gate."

The patent was filed on March 14, 2023, under Application N...