ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,382, issued on Nov. 3.

"Method for controlling a plurality of half-bridges and corresponding apparatus" was invented by Placido De Vita (Acicatena, Italy), Giovanni Luca Torrisi (Catania, Italy), Salvatore Abbisso (Augusta, Italy), Antonio Davide Leone (Siziano, Italy), Gea Donzelli (Varese, Italy) and Claudio Manconi (Sassari, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a method and circuit for controlling a plurality of half-bridges used to drive loads are provided. The circuit includes output terminals coupled to respective half-bridges, a register bank storing link information indicating which half-bridges are...