US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK on May 27 for "Monolithic half-bridge die" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,231, issued on May 27, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Md.).

"Monolithic half-bridge die" was invented by Shiladri Chakraborty (Calcutta, India), Yongwan Park (College Park, Md.) and Alireza Khaligh (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to a half-bridge on a monolithic die. In one example, a half-bridge module includes a monolithic die, a high-side transistor integrated in the monolithic die, a low-side transistor integrated in the monolithic die, and a decoupling capacitor integrated in the monolithic die. The decoupling capacitor may be disposed between t...