US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on July 15 for "Gate driver with thermal monitoring and current sensing" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,741, issued on July 15, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Gate driver with thermal monitoring and current sensing" was invented by Paul J. Harriman (Indian Harbour, Fla.), Thomas Patrick Duffy (Chandler, Ariz.), James George Hill (Cave Creek, Ariz.), Michael Scott Lay (Tempe, Ariz.) and Margaret Spillane (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver can be configured to provide sensed phase currents as feedback to a controller to indicate the output currents from each phase of a switch mode power supply (SMPS). The driver can be configured to temperature compensate the sensed c...