US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on March 31 for "Variable current drive for isolated gate drivers" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,683, issued on March 31, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Variable current drive for isolated gate drivers" was invented by Ion C. Tesu (Austin, Texas), James E. Heckroth (Austin, Texas), Stefan N. Mastovich (Austin, Texas), John N. Wilson (Austin, Texas), Krishna Pentakota (Austin, Texas), Michael Ireland (Guildford, Great Britain), Greg Ridsdale (Austin, Texas) and Lyric Jackson (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a high-power drive device includes providing a current having a first predetermined current level to an output node during a first phase of a multi-phase...