US Patent Issued to IDEAL POWER on Sept. 15 for "Unidirectional switch circuit" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,935, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to IDEAL POWER INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Unidirectional switch circuit" was invented by Mudit Khanna (Austin, Texas), Ruiyang Yu (Austin, Texas), Jiankang Bu (Austin, Texas), Yifan Jiang (Austin, Texas) and R. Daniel Brdar (Driftwood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch circuit for coupling two circuit terminals together is disclosed. The switch circuit includes a double-base bipolar junction transistor and a field-effect transistor coupled, in series, between a first terminal and a second terminal. Various driver circuits may be employed to activate, in response to an activation of a swi...