US Patent Issued to PSEMI on Dec. 23 for "Bypass circuitry to improve switching speed" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,471, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to PSEMI Corp. (San Diego).

"Bypass circuitry to improve switching speed" was invented by Ravindranath D. Shrivastava (San Diego), Simon Willard (Irvine, Calif.) and Peter Bacon (New Hampshire, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices to improve the switching speed of radio frequency FET switch stacks are disclosed. The described methods and devices are based on bypassing drain-sources resistors when the FET switch stack is transitioning from an ON to an OFF state. Several implementations of the disclosed teachings are also presented."

The patent was filed on Aug. 21, 2023, under ...