ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,629, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Driver circuit with two cascading half-bridge drivers for actuating three transistors" was invented by Veit Wagenseil (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver circuit for a PFC cell is described. The PFC cell has a half-bridge with two half-bridge switches connected via a connection point. A star point switch connects the connection point to a star point of the PFC cell. The driver circuit has a target control signal input for target actuation signals and two half-bridge drivers connected downstream. The half-bridge drivers are configured...