US Patent Issued to NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY on April 14 for "Active gate driver" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,650, issued on April 14, was assigned to NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Active gate driver" was invented by Chua-Chin Wang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Oliver Lexter July A. Jose (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Venkata Naveen Kolakaluri (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Jui-Min Kuo (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Ming-Chi Chou (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active gate driver provided to drive a power transistor includes a two-level Miller plateau detector, a cycle shifter, a flexible split-path feedback circuit, a PMOS switch picker, a NMOS switch picker, a PMOS buffer array and a NMOS buffer array. The active gate driver turn...