ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,516, issued on June 24, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY S.L. (Sarriguren, Spain).

"Control method of a hybrid power switch" was invented by Ibrahim Alisar (Nuremberg, Germany), Erhan Demirok (Izmir, Turkey) and Jose Luis Rodriguez Izal (Burlada, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method of a hybrid power switch having at least a first switching device connected in parallel with a second switching device is provided. A first gate signal is provided to the first switching device for turning on and turning off the first switching device. A second gate signal is provided to the second s...