US Patent Issued to Renesas Electronics America on Jan. 20 for "Three-phase motor driver with built-in discrete MOSFETs" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,765, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Three-phase motor driver with built-in discrete MOSFETs" was invented by Tetsuo Sato (San Jose, Calif.), Jianghong Ding (Ladera Ranch, Calif.) and Yonggoo Eom (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuits and devices for a motor driver are described. A hybrid integrated circuit (IC) can include a driver IC, a first IC, and a plurality of second ICs. The first IC can include a plurality of high-side metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). The first IC can further include a common drain terminal connected to d...