US Patent Issued to Maxim Integrated Products on April 7 for "Systems and methods for powering driver circuitry" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,856, issued on April 7, was assigned to Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for powering driver circuitry" was invented by Rajdeep Mukhopadhyay (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Christopher Francis Edwards (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for powering driver circuitry for an upper transistor of a half-bridge switching stage includes (1) selectively charging a boot-strap capacitor via a first voltage source such that a voltage at the boot-strap capacitor remains within a predetermined voltage range, (2) clamping the voltage at the boot-strap capacitor to prevent the voltage at...