US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Dec. 2 for "Inductive load driver with PWM regulation and fast shut down current decay" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,429, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Inductive load driver with PWM regulation and fast shut down current decay" was invented by Gang Jin (Westland, Mich.), Jennifer Carabott (New Hudson, Mich.) and Devan Ternan (Madison Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load driver includes an active clamping circuit coupled between gate and source terminals of a power stage. The active clamping circuit serves to either pass through a gate drive voltage (provided by a gate driver) to the power stage in a PWM mode or to actively clamp the voltage between gate and source terminals of the ...