US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on July 21 for "Voltage clamp circuit for a gate driver circuit" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,282, issued on July 21, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Voltage clamp circuit for a gate driver circuit" was invented by Taisuke Kazama (Plano, Texas), Mustapha El-Markhi (Richardson, Texas), Avadhut Junnarkar (McKinney, Texas) and Indumini W Ranmuthu (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described embodiments include a gate drive circuit with a first transistor coupled between an input voltage terminal and a switching terminal, and having a first control terminal. A second transistor is coupled between the switching terminal and ground, and has a second control terminal. A first driver circuit has a first dr...