US Patent Issued to ETEL on Dec. 23 for "Half-bridge converter comprising a bootstrap circuit to provide a negative turn-off voltage" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,396, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ETEL S.A. (Motiers, Switzerland).

"Half-bridge converter comprising a bootstrap circuit to provide a negative turn-off voltage" was invented by Piotr Zimoch (Scherz, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A half-bridge converter includes a high-side transistor connected to a positive electrode of a direct current (DC) voltage source and a low-side transistor connected to a reference ground. A gate driver is configured to control the high-side and low-side transistors at a duty cycle of a gate driver control signal. A bootstrap circuit is configured to provide a positive voltage and a negati...