US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Oct. 14 for "Control system and control method for dual-gate bidirectional switch" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,282, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Control system and control method for dual-gate bidirectional switch" was invented by Yusuke Kinoshita (Kyoto, Japan), Masanori Nomura (Osaka, Japan) and Satoshi Nakazawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current collapse of a normally-on type dual-gate bidirectional switch is suppressed. Dual-gate bidirectional switch includes first gate, first source, second gate, and second source. Control system includes first gate drive circuit, second gate drive circuit, and controller. Controller controls first gate drive cir...