ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,233, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Driving device and power converter" was invented by Ryoga Kiguchi (Tokyo) and Hiromu Takubo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving device includes a first circuit switching between connecting and not connecting a first control line to a first positive power supply line, a second circuit switching between connecting or not connecting the first control line to a first negative power supply line, a third circuit switching between connecting and not connecting the first control line to a first reference line, a first control circuit operating the ...