ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,913, issued on May 19, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Gate driver" was invented by Daiki Yanagishima (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate driver includes: a gate driving circuit configured to generate a gate driving signal for a power device according to a gate control signal; and a driving capacity switch circuit configured to raise the gate driving capacity of the gate driving circuit when a time-variation signal obtained by passing the gate driving signal in the on-transition period of the power device through a high-pass filter becomes lower than a threshold value."
The patent was filed on March 1, ...