US Patent Issued to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. on Sept. 8 for "Method and means of dead time reduction in half bridge topology" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,095, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. COMPANY (County Limerick, Ireland).

"Method and means of dead time reduction in half bridge topology" was invented by Bernhard Strzalkowski (County Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first aspect, there is provided a method of controlling a power converter or a power inverter, comprising: using a comparator to detect a negative voltage drop at a gate of a passive switch device, the negative voltage drop being indicative of an active switch device turning off; applying an adjustment time to a predetermined turn on time of the passive switch ...