ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,315, issued on June 30, was assigned to BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Ark.).

"Adaptive silicon carbide gate drivers in integrated circuit form" was invented by Xia Du (Fayetteville, Ark.), Liyang Du (Fayetteville, Ark.), Andrea Stratta (Fayetteville, Ark.), Asif Faruque (Fayetteville, Ark.), H. Alan Mantooth (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Yuqi Wei (Fayetteville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiphase converter for reducing the input and output current ripples. The multiphase converter includes a system controller and power devices. Furthermore, the multiphase converter includes an active gate drive...