US Patent Issued to pSemi on Oct. 20 for "High-speed switch with accelerated switching time" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,334, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to pSemi Corp. (San Diego).

"High-speed switch with accelerated switching time" was invented by Chengkai Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus is disclosed for maintaining a stable power supply to a circuit when activating/deactivating a switch in order to accelerate the switching time of the switch. The gate of a FET is coupled to a switch driver. The switch driver is powered by a positive power supply and a negative power supply. When the switch is to be activated/deactivated, the gate is first coupled to a reference potential (i.e., ground) for a "reset period" to...