ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,077, issued on July 29, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies Germany GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Method for switching power transistors" was invented by Robert Istvan Loerincz (Chisoda, Romania), Diego Antongirolami (Nuremberg, Germany), Marc Arabackyj (Nuremberg, Germany), Matthias Maser (Nuremberg, Germany), Eric Taistra (Nuremberg, Germany) and Sahaya Kulandai Raj Joseph (Furth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for switching power transistors in a power transistor circuit. The power transistors each have a gate, which is driven sequentially by at least three control values in the case of a switch-on sequence and/or...