US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Aug. 11 for "Gate driver circuit fault detection techniques" (Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,599, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Gate driver circuit fault detection techniques" was invented by Brian K. Jadus (Williston, Vt.) and Steven John Tanghe (Essex Junction, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A desaturation detection circuit is described that uses two or more desaturation circuit threshold values, which shifts the desaturation threshold value in a normal operational mode to a higher voltage when the active short circuit (ASC) signal is present in a faulted operational mode. Including two or more desaturation detection circuit threshold values allows a lower desaturation thr...