US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on Sept. 16 for "Validation of current levels delivered by a gate driver" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,277, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Validation of current levels delivered by a gate driver" was invented by James E. Heckroth (Austin, Texas) and Ion C. Tesu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for validating operation of a driver integrated circuit includes providing a signal using an output node. The signal is provided using multiple set points in response to a change in state of an input signal. Each set point corresponds to a different phase of a multi-phase transition of the signal. The method includes providing a timer value at an end of a phase of the multi-p...