US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on Aug. 25 for "Direct drive cascoded switching circuit" (Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,469, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Direct drive cascoded switching circuit" was invented by Karel Ptacek (Roznov pod Radhostem, Czech Republic) and Roman Radvan (Roznov pod Radhostem, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cascoded switch system is disclosed. The cascoded switch system includes JFET and a MOSFET coupled in series between a drain terminal and a source terminal. The system further includes a drive circuit comprising a JFET driver configured to receive an input signal and to output a JFET-drive signal to a capacitor coupled in series with the ga...