ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,861, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Gate driver circuit capable of preventing spikes" was invented by Ping-Liang Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver circuit provides a soft-start current to a gate of a power switch during a soft-start period to soft-start the power switch. The gate driver circuit includes: a first current mirror circuit, configured to mirror a reference current according to a mirror ratio to generate a mirror output current; and a path switch coupled on a signal path between the mirror output current and the soft-start current. The soft-star...