US Patent Issued to Power Integrations on July 7 for "Detecting signals from cascode power devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,545, issued on July 7, was assigned to Power Integrations Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detecting signals from cascode power devices" was invented by Robert J. Mayell (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting signals from cascode power devices is described herein. By sensing a gate signal from the high-voltage device, drain waveform characteristics may be monitored. In this manner a power switch may be controlled to avail enhanced performance in a power converter comprising a cascode power device."

The patent was filed on Feb. 7, 2024, under Application No. 18/435,296.

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