ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,286, issued on July 21, was assigned to Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (Kirkland, Wash.).

"Gate driver control for high frequency switching converter" was invented by Wen-Jie Tsou (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Bor-Tsang Hwang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Huei Lee (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Haoyang You (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver circuit includes a high side driver circuit, a low side driver circuit, and an on-time control circuit. The high side driver circuit provides a first gate driving signal to a high side power switch. The low side driver circuit provides a second gate driving signal to a low s...