ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,132, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Silergy Semiconductor Technology (Hangzhou) LTD (Hangzhou, China).

"Driving circuit and driving method for switching element" was invented by Chiqing Fang (Hangzhou, China), Zhiwei Xu (Hangzhou, China), Kailang Hang (Hangzhou, China) and Chen Zhao (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of driving a switching element in a switching circuit, where the switching element comprises a plurality of power transistors coupled in parallel, can include: determining a state of a load in the switching circuit; decreasing a driving voltage of at least one power transistor in order to reduce...