ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,415, issued on June 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Low noise gate driver circuits" was invented by Syed Wasif Mehdi (Freising, Germany) and Stefan Herzer (Marzling, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver circuit includes a charge pump circuit, a gate pull-up transistor, a resistor, and a capacitor. The charge pump circuit includes an output. The gate pull-up transistor includes a first current terminal, a second current terminal, and a control terminal. The first current terminal is coupled to the output of the charge pump circuit. The second current terminal is coupled to a gate drive output term...