US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on Nov. 25 for "Method for suppressing voltage overshoots" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,233, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Method for suppressing voltage overshoots" was invented by Joseph Andrew Yedinak (Mountain Top, Pa.), Gary Horst Loechelt (Tempe, Ariz.) and Xiaoli Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are disclosed for facilitating faster switching of silicon-based and silicon carbide-based power transistors suitable for use in electric vehicles. The disclosed techniques can minimize the impact on turn-on and turn-off losses, while reducing gate voltage and drain voltage spikes during device switching. A fast/slow cell des...