US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on April 7 for "System and method for communicating driver readiness to a controller" (Arizona, Texas, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,861, issued on April 7, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method for communicating driver readiness to a controller" was invented by Han Zou (Gibert, Ariz.), David H. Elwart II (Sachse, Texas), Paul J. Harriman (Indian Harbour, Fla.) and Michael Scott Lay (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching regulator is disclosed that includes a driver having a driver-wake circuit configured to report its readiness for operation during a startup period. The driver-wake circuit can operate during startup by temporarily drawing power from the controller's power supply until the...