ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,522, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Switching circuit, corresponding device and method" was invented by Edoardo Botti (Vigevano, Italy), Francesco Stilgenbauer (Rho, Italy), Marco Raimondi (Busto Garolfo, Italy) and Elena Cussotto (Robecco sul Naviglio, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching circuit includes first and second half bridges supplying an electrical load via filter networks. During alternate switching sequences a first transistor pair (high-side in one half bridge and low-side in the other half bridge) is switched to a non-conductive state, and a second trans...