US Patent Issued to General Electric on Oct. 27 for "Power converter having a gate drive circuit and method of operating" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,699, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Power converter having a gate drive circuit and method of operating" was invented by Di Pan (Schenectady, N.Y.), Yichao Zhang (Guilderland, N.Y.), Yuntao Xu (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Yukai Wang (Glenville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter apparatus comprises a set of switching elements communicatively coupled with a set of gate drive circuits. Each gate drive circuit is configured to provide a respective drive signal to a corresponding switching element, each switching element being switchably responsive to the respective drive signal....