ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,238, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Constant current high edge-rate driver system and related methods" was invented by Dwane Sample (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver system comprising a bridge driver section, a switch FET section comprising: a drive stage section, a device section, and a current limiting section, wherein the switch FET section electrically couples the bridge driver section to the device section, wherein the fast current clamp is electrically coupled to the device section. By using the drive-bridge configuration, t...