ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,654, issued on April 21, was assigned to Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (Denver).
"Microwave generator driver limiter" was invented by Christopher Michael Owen (Chandler, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave power generator comprises a driver stage having a driver transistor and an output stage coupled to the driver stage and having a power amplifier. A driver limiter is coupled to a DC voltage supply and includes a resistor coupled between the DC voltage supply and the driver transistor. The resistor has a resistance value effective to reduce a DC voltage supplied by the DC voltage supply to a control voltage that is a...