US Patent Issued to Monolithic Power Systems on March 17 for "Switching slew rate control of cascode switch device and gate driver thereof" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,561, issued on March 17, was assigned to Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (Kirkland, Wash.).

"Switching slew rate control of cascode switch device and gate driver thereof" was invented by Vipindas Pala (San Jose, Calif.), Xiao-chang Cheng (Kirkland, Wash.) and Di Han (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cascode switch device includes a normally-on switch device, a normally-off switch device, and a gate driver. The normally-on switch device has a first terminal, a second terminal and a control terminal. The normally-off switch device has a first terminal, a second terminal and a control terminal. The first terminal of the ...