US Patent Issued to Navitas Semiconductor on Sept. 1 for "Fast digital isolator" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,196, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Navitas Semiconductor Ltd. (Dublin).

"Fast digital isolator" was invented by Vincent Dessard (Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium) and Aimad Saib (Gembloux, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a digital isolator comprising a logic module (20) for receiving an input signal D, and providing command signals (41, 42) to sawtooth modulators. A first sawtooth modulator provides a first sawtooth signal at a node A1 comprising a fast rising edge triggered by a rising edge of a control signal, followed by a slow falling edge, when D equals 1 and comprises a fast falling edge triggere...