US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Sept. 1 for "Variable slew rate hybrid gate drivers for power modules" (Michigan, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,099, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Variable slew rate hybrid gate drivers for power modules" was invented by Yilun Luo (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Benjamin S. Ngu (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Khorshed Mohammed Alam (Canton, Mich.), Mohammad N. Anwar (Van Buren Township, Mich.), Chandra S. Namuduri (Troy, Mich.), Michael Z. Pieszala (Panama City, Fla.), Brian A. Welchko (Oakland Township, Mich.) and Rashmi Prasad (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver for providing slew rate (SR) control of a power module (PM) includes input ports for receiving pulse-width-modulation (PWM) c...