US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Nov. 4 for "Bi-directional synchronous bootstrapping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,533, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Bi-directional synchronous bootstrapping" was invented by Nathan Miles Ellis (Emeryville, Calif.) and Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for delivering power to the gate-drivers used in switching power conversion devices. In a bootstrapping network gate drivers are cascaded between a high-side and a low-side. Each gate driver controls a bidirectional active switch along a synchronous bootstrapping power path. The bootstrapping power path contains at least two bias vol...