US Patent Issued to EHT Ventures on Sept. 1 for "Efficient IGBT switching" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,191, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to EHT Ventures LLC (Seattle).

"Efficient IGBT switching" was invented by Timothy Ziemba (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Kenneth E. Miller (Seattle), John G. Carscadden (Seattle) and James Prager (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide IGBT circuit modules with increased efficiencies. These efficiencies can be realized in a number of ways. In some embodiments, the gate resistance and/or voltage can be minimized. In some embodiments, the IGBT circuit module can be switched using an isolated receiver such as a fiber optic receiver. In some embodiments, a single drive...