US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on Oct. 27 for "Generation of positive and negative switch gate control voltages" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,698, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Generation of positive and negative switch gate control voltages" was invented by Ion Constantin Tesu (Austin, Texas), Joselyn Torres-Torres (Austin, Texas), Stefan Noel Mastovich (Austin, Texas), James Edward Heckroth (Austin, Texas), Krishna Pentakota (Austin, Texas) and Long Van Nguyen (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for powering gate drivers in a half-bridge configuration uses a single external power supply to power each gate driver. A single on-chip regulator regulates the positive turn-on voltage for each switch. The reg...