US Patent Issued to EPIRUS on July 7 for "Systems and methods for high-voltage power integrated circuits" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,601, issued on July 7, was assigned to EPIRUS INC. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for high-voltage power integrated circuits" was invented by Velimir Nedic (Los Angeles) and Denpol Kultran (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes an integrated circuit having a housing, an optical port exposed on an exterior of the housing, and gate driver circuitry configured to generate a drive signal at an output of the integrated circuit to drive a gate terminal of a wide band gap (WBG) power device. The integrated circuit may include an optical receiver coupled to the optical port and having an ele...