ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,415, issued on June 30, was assigned to Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Gate driver circuit and operating method thereof" was invented by Wei-Cheng Yu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chang-Ching Tu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Tian-Li Wu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Sheng Hsiao (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Yi-Kai Hsiao (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chia-Lung Hung (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Hao-Chung Kuo (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver circuit and an operating method thereof are provided. The gate driver circuit includes a charge sharing circuit including a first resistor, ...