US Patent Issued to Wolfspeed on Dec. 30 for "Device having a rate of current change limiter and process of implementing the same" (North Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,658, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Wolfspeed Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Device having a rate of current change limiter and process of implementing the same" was invented by Jianwen Shao (Cary, N.C.), Ajit Kanale (Raleigh, N.C.) and Prasanna Obala Bhuvanesh (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include at least one power device; a gate driver; a control and sensing circuit; and a current sensor. Also, the device may include a current limiter that includes a parasitic inductance component. The parasitic inductance component is configured, structured, and/or implemented to limit a rate of current change (di/dt) dur...