US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Sept. 15 for "Gate driver circuit and process for reducing dead time duration upon switching" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,838, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gate driver circuit and process for reducing dead time duration upon switching" was invented by Johan Le Lesle (Rennes Cedex, France) and Guillaume Lefevre (Rennes Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gate driver circuit, for a half bridge of a converter where a first switching device and a second switching device are controlled independently and in a complementary way comprising a first gate current mirroring circuit on a sink branch of a first gate driver buffer and a second gate current mirroring circuit on a sink branch of a second gate driver b...